ISeries Backup

Problems whislt iSeries LIC recovery

Hi, We are trying to recover our DR machine its 825 and i550, when trying to boot from the SAVSYS tape we recieve the following errors i550 - B167 4609 825 - B200 300 Not sure if they are related to LIC program corrupt on the tape or something else as am not able to find it on the web as well?...

Which tape drives are most popular on iSeries?

Hi, I'm trying to get my company to buy me a small i-series for home and I need to know which tape drives and which tapes are the most commonly used on smaller i-series. Most of our customers still use QIC 1/4" cartridges/drives, but what other options are commonly used? I don't want to get...

ASP wise backup in iSeries

Hi, I want to take ASP(Auxilary Storage Pool wise backup)is it possible if yes than please let me know the process?thanks........

Issues with BRMS Network Group

When you go to BRMS Menu --> Policy Administration --> System Policy --> Change Network Group, you can see all the Boxes connected each other. There are 5 LPARS in total. It shows Network Status INACTIVE on one while the others shows ACTIVE. and receive media info is set to none What...

Check expiry date of tape (using iSeries and BRMS)

I am chasing a simple CL program to check if the currently loaded tape has the data as *expired so it can be written to under BRMS. It shouldn't be that hard but I've searched for literally days and can't find anyone to help.

iSeries backup encryption on LT04?

Hi, We are looking to encrypt our backups and having looked about it appears that using a fibre attached LT04 in the tape library where the encryption is done at hardware level would be the best /cheapest option. It is the best option for us as it also says that no software is required, however...

Entire System Backup

Before i was using small tape for Entire System Back up(Fmt5gb)but now i am using big tape (Qic 4gb) it take too long time to finish the back up how can i reduce the time

Save/Restore Spooled files using BRMS

How can i saved/restored spooled files on Tape using BRMS. Thank you inadvance

BRMS and Tape Library on iSeries (AS/400) with concurrent backup of LPARs

Hi, I have a TS3500 Tape Library which has four LTO-3 drives. The system that I am running on is iSeries 870 with OS version V5R3. The 870 system has a total of 6 LPARs (Logical Partitions), each running the same OS V5R3. Recently, the BRMS for this version of V5R3 was implemented. Now,...

Testing Backup tapes before use?

My company operates on an LPAR on an iSeries. Connected to the iSeries is a tape silo which we utilize as part of our backup strategy. Our backup strategy involves taking a full system save each Saturday night, and then Mon-Fri nights, we take incremental backups of our critical libraries. ...