Hi, We use BRMS to backup to a tape library. This has worked fine for years without any problem. Recently we've started getting saves failing with a no media available message. According to BRMS there are plenty of tapes with this media type which are initialized and/or expired. Does anybody have...
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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.
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What is the right backup tape for me if I am trying to get 15 terabytes backed up? We currently have a LTO3 library but I would love to replace it with higher capacity tapes. Are there any that are reliable? What application should I be using for backups this huge?
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Before I was using small tape for Entire System Back up (Fmt5gb) but now I'm using big tape (Qic 4gb) it take too long time to finish the back up how can I reduce the time?
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We have an IBM TS3100 tape library attached to an iSeries, but no media management software. Is there any way to change the external cartridge id? INZTAP always defaults to the meaningless cartridge id.
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Can Entire system Backup be taken through BRMS over multiple tape drives simultaneously. Secondly if the expiry of such a tape has passed, will it be possible to restore contents of such a tape?
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As part of our daily data processing, we often restore the data from tapes. while restoring from tapes, we used to submit the restore process a batch to increase speed of restore processing. But if the save file (what we are restoring) is very big we need to keep monitor the job to know the...
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Hi, we are having some problems with the behavior of our backup process, since its using the latest / newly expired tapes instead of those which are expired long ago. As a result, the newly expired tapes doesnt get cleaned (STRMNTBRM) since it already has new files in it, together with the older...
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We have a 9407-515 V6R1M1, SLR60 Tape drive. We used to be able to do an entire system backup (unattended) on an SLR60 tape. It now wants a second tape. After inserting the second tape how do I get it to resume the save? It just sits there like it wants a message answered but I can't get to any...
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I have 2 tapes that were saved under my Daily file group and I would like to change them to my Weekly file group. Its mainly a retention issue and I know how to go in and change the move policy, but the tapes are still in my inventory as Daily instead of Weekly.
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For a migration project I have to copy 1500 jaguar tapes to LTO5. This is a one time activity so I need a connect a robot with LTO5 drives only a limited time (2 years). What LTO5 robots do support BRMS ? I've been looking at Quantum Scalar i500 but Quantum say they aren't compliant to OS/400...
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I have a complete Opt 21 save tape from my current 520 running V6R1. I have the following license pgms installed...Performance tools, DB2 query & SQL Dev kit, WDS, Client access. We found another 520 box(hardware upgraded), it has been wiped clean , no OS. Can I use our opt 21 tape and restore it...
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Our backup is failing due to an error message that states we need to clean TAP01. We used a tape cleaner, also tried a solvent on swabs, tried a brand new tape and still get the error message. Any suggestions?
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We are using LTO4 ultrium tape for backups in our server{V5R4}. System Total Storage - 12TB Present ASP - 60% i.e.,{More than 6 TB} For Entire System backup - Two Ultrium 4 tapes used. {which has the size of 1.6Tb each for compressed data = total 3.2Tb} Question :...
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