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Session: 407051

BRMS: Introduction/Overview

BRMS 101!

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Session Agenda
What is BRMS and How can it help me?
Installing BRMS
Base Functions of BRMS
–Media Management
–Backup
Planning
Implementing
Reviewing IBM Enhanced Capacity
Cartridge System
Cartridge Tape Tape
System

–Recovery IBM Enhanced Capacity

Cartridge System
Cartridge Tape Tape
System

Restore options IBM Enhanced Capacity

Cartridge System
Cartridge Tape Tape
System

Reports IBM Enhanced Capacity

Cartridge System
Cartridge Tape Tape
System
IBM Enhanced Capacity
Cartridge System
Cartridge Tape Tape
System

–Maintenance
IBM Enhanced Capacity
IBM Enhanced Capacity IBM Enhanced Capacity
Cartridge System Tape Tape
Cartridge System
Cartridge Tape Tape
System
Cartridge System Tape Tape Cartridge System
Cartridge System

Overview
IBM Enhanced Capacity
Cartridge System
Cartridge Tape Tape
System

Resources

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What is BRMS????

BACKUP/RECOVERY/MEDIA Services
IBM's Strategic Backup Management Product.

How can it help ME????

Manage your media!
BRMS
Automate your Backups!
Simplify your Recoveries!
Provide Detailed Reporting!
Tape Library Support!
.....the list goes on!

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Installing BRMS - 57xxBR1

Ensure no other tape management software exits.

Install Media Storage Extensions 57xx-SS1 Option #18
Install BRMS 57xx-BR1
Apply latest CUM and Backup Recovery Solutions Group PTF
–SF99078 for V5R1
–SF99085 for V5R2
–SF99185 for V5R3
–SF99186 for V5R4
Apply BRMS PTF's and Network PTF's on all iSeries in a BRMS network
Installation provides three (3) libraries:
–QBRM BRMS Product Library
–QUSRBRM BRMS User Library
–QMSE MSE Product Library

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 Option #1: Network
*BASE Function
Media Management
Backup Planning ƒ What is on Tape XYZ? Network
ƒ What tapes should be in location DEF?
Critical Non-Critical ƒ What tapes are old or have a lot of errors?
Application Application ƒ What tapes should move offsite today?
BRMS
Media
Database
ƒ What tape has the latest copy of Object ABC?
Lib1 Lib3
iSeriesA
Lib2 Lib4
BRMS BRMS
Media Media

ƒ What Objects should be backed up? Database Database

ƒ What media? Tape, savefile, or TSM?

iSeriesB iSeriesC

ƒ Full, Incremental, or Cumulative

Backups?
ƒ Save-while-active, Parallel saves

ƒ Spoolfile and Object Level saves

Recovery
ƒ Duplicate Backup Tapes Recovery Analysis Report Libs Completed: 6
Recovery Volume Summary Report
Libs to go: 114
Step 5: Recover your BRMS % Complete: 3%

ƒ Did last night's backup run OK?

database by mounting VOL123 and
Vol123 Offsite 3/01/99 typing RSTLIB QUSRBRM. Paylib1 Vol123
Vol456 Comproom 3/01/99 Step 6: Recover your user profiles by Paylib2 Vol 456
Vol789 MLD01 3/01/99 mounting VOL456 and typing
Paylib3 Vol 789
STRRCYBRM *SYSTEM
*RESTORE.
Step 7: Recover your special OS/400
libraries by mounting VOL789 and
typing STR ...

Option #2: HSM

ƒ List of Tapes required
Tape Library Support ƒ List of Steps to Recover

ƒ On-Line Progress Report

ƒ Location-specific Recovery Steps

Hierarchical Storage
Management
3494 LTO 3590 3570/3575
Enhanced Capacity
IBM

BRMS GUI
Cartridge System Tape

ƒ Migrate libraries, root folders, and

spoolfiles among disk ASPs based on
age, size, and last use criteria
ƒ Archive objects to tape based on age,

size, frequency of use, and ASP

storage criteria
ƒ Dynamically recall database files,

DLO's and streamfiles when needed

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Media Management
How does BRMS manage media?

BACKUP Media Policies

Specifies media retention, SAVF usage, and decides
what media class, location and move policy to use for the backup.
*Note: Other items are set in the media policy as well.

Media Classes Move Policies use Locations

Tape specific info, ex. Density Road map for media movement Where media and devices reside.

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Media Management - Media Policy

WRKPCYBRM *MED

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Media Management - Media Class

WRKCLSBRM

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Media Management - Move Policy

WRKPCYBRM *MOV

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Media Management - Location

WRKLOCBRM

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Media Management - Commands

WRKMEDBRM

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Media Management - Commands

WRKMLMBRM

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Media Management - Commands

Additional media related commands…..

ADDMEDBRM
Ability to add media into the BRMS inventory.
ADDMLMBRM
Ability to add media from a media library into the BRMS inventory.
DUPMEDBRM
BRMS command that duplicates BRMS media that has been marked for
duplication, or volumes that are specified on the command.

MOVMEDBRM
BRMS command that applies the Move Policy's rules , and “MOVES” the media.

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Media Management - Reports

Media Exp. Report

–Provides scratch tape listing.
–Ability to customize parameters.
Media Movement Report
–Shows all tapes that are to move locations each day.
–Different formats, via MOVMEDBRM or PRTMOVBRM
Media Threshold Information
–Lists media, and their Read/Write errors.
–Shows when media has exceeded certain thresholds

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Backup
Where do I start? Backup
Critical Non-Critical
Planning - Control Groups Application Application
Lib1 Lib3
–Backup Entries Lib2 Lib4
–Backup Attributes
ƒ What Objects should be backed up?
–Backup Controls ƒ What media? Tape, Virtual Tape,

savefile, or TSM?
Running - STRBKUBRM ƒ Full, Incremental, or Cumulative

Backups?
–Batch/Interactive ƒ Save-while-active, Parallel saves

ƒ Spoolfile and Object Level saves

–Override Capabilities ƒ Duplicate Backup Tapes

ƒ Did last night's backup run OK?

–Restart Capabilities
–Restricted State in Batch V5R3
Review
–BRMS Log, DSPLOGBRM
–WRKMEDIBRM

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Backup - Planning
What is a Control Group?
BRMS Backup Control Groups describe the backup to be performed.

What? Where? How?

Pre/Post Processing?

BRMS provides and creates....

Default Control Groups
Backup
–*BKUGRP
Control
*SAVSECDTA, *SAVCFG, *ALLUSR, *ALLDLO, *LINK
Group
–*SYSGRP
*SAVSYS, *IBM
–*SYSTEM
*SAVSYS, *IBM, *ALLUSR, *ALLDLO, *LINK
Domino Control Groups

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Backup - Control Groups

How do I work with Control Groups?
WRKCTLGBRM

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Backup - Control Groups

Backup Entries
Entries What? How?

–Special values (*ALLUSR, *IBM, *SAVSYS etc..)

–Library Names Backup
–Generics Entries
–EXITS, CL command exit points Opt. 2
–Backup Lists
List type (*OBJ, *SPL, *FLR, *LNK)
ASP Device (2-32, *ALLAVL, *SYSBAS, *CURASPGRP, ASP device name)
Weekly Activity (SMTWTFS), Full, Incr or no activity.
Retain Object Detail (*ERR, *OBJ, *MBR, *YES, *NO)
Save While Active (*YES, *NO, *LIB, *SYNCLIB, *SYSDFN)
Save While Active Message Queue

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Backup - Control Groups

Edit Backup Control Group Entries

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Backup - Control Groups

Backup Attributes
Where?
Media Polices
Devices
Backup
Parallel Entries
Access Paths (*yes or *no) Opt. 8
Compression and Compaction
Append or write to seq. 1
End of tape option, *UNLOAD, *REWIND, *LEAVE
Save Media Information

And much more………..

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Backup - Control Groups

Change Backup Control Group Attributes- Screen 1

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Backup - Control Groups

Change Backup Control Group Attributes – Screen 2

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Backup - Control Groups
Backup Attributes - PARALLEL
What's parallel all about?
•Shortens backup window!
•Doesn’t require same amount of
drives at recovery time.
•Keeps resources busy and utilized.
•BRMS creates the media definition
for you.
•Supports two different methods to
save.
•Object spreading
•Library spreading
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Object spreading parallel
Spreads each object across multiple drives.
Best used for large amounts of data.
 Large libraries, with big objects.
 Not ideal for large libraries with
a lot of small objects.
IFS, Libraries and objects are supported
using this method.
**IFS is only in V5R4!
Library spreading parallel
Spreads each library across multiple drives.
Always done for:
 *ALLUSR, QUSRBRM, QBRM,
QMSE, Q1ABRMSF01-32, *ALLTEST,
*ALLPROD, *ASP01-32 and Generics.
IFS is not supported using this method.
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Backup - Control Groups

Backup Attributes – Saving Media Information

*LIB, Saves media information at the library level.

*OBJ, Saves media information at the object level. Use this value if
*NONE, no media information saved. doing Lotus
Online saves.
SAVMEDIBRM command does the same function.

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Backup - Control Groups

Pre/Post Processing Capabilities

Ending/Starting subsystems Pre/Post processing?

Holding/Releasing Jobq’s
Subsystems,
Omit capability Jobqs,
Omits
Opt. 9, 10
F10

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Backup - Control Groups

Jobqs to process - Opt. 10

Subsystems to process - Opt. 9

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Backup - Control Groups

Omit List - F10

Be aware that this applies to all control groups

and all BRMS saves, ex. SAVLIBBRM.

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Backup - Running
How do I run a control group?

STRBKUBRM
Batch/Interactive
Override capability
Restart option
BRMS

STRBKUBRM

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Backup - Running
STRBKUBRM

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Backup - Review
How do I know it worked?

DSPLOGBRM
JOBLOG
Recovery Report
WRKMEDIBRM

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Recovery
How do I recover/restore my data?

WRKMEDIBRM, WRKOBJBRM, WRKLNKBRM and more....

RSTLIBBRM, RSTOBJBRM, RSTDLOBRM, RSTBRM
STRRCYBRM
BRMS GUI's Restore Wizard
Recovery
Recovery Volume Summary Report
Vol123 Offsite 3/01/99
Vol456 Comproom 3/01/99
Vol789 MLD01 3/01/99
Recovery Analysis Report Libs Completed: 6
Libs to go: 114
Step 5: Recover your BRMS % Complete: 3%
database by mounting VOL123
and typing RSTLIB QUSRBRM.
Paylib1 Vol123
Step 6: Recover your user profiles
by mounting VOL456 and typing Paylib2 Vol 456
STRRCYBRM *SYSTEM Paylib3 Vol 789
*RESTORE.
Step 7: Recover your special
OS/400 libraries by mounting
VOL789 and typing STR ...

ƒ List of Tapes required

ƒ List of Steps to Recover

ƒ On-Line Progress Report

ƒ Location-specific Recovery

Steps

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Recovery - WRKMEDIBRM

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Recovery - WRKMEDIBRM
Restore Screen

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Recovery - WRKMEDIBRM
Recovery Defaults Screen, F9

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Recovery - WRKMEDIBRM
Restore Status

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Recovery – Recovery Report

STRRCYBRM
Options (*SYSTEM, *CTLGRP, *LIB, *RESUME.....)
Report or Restore
TSM
From System
Omit capability
IASP option

Recovery report gives you a step by

step guide to getting your system back
in a disaster recovery situation.

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Recovery - STRRCYBRM

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Recovery - STRRCYBRM
Recovery Analysis Report

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Recovery - STRRCYBRM
Recovery Volume Summary Report

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Maintenance
Is it something I should run everyday?

What exactly does it do?

STRMNTBRM

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Maintenance - STRMNTBRM
It is important to run STRMNTBRM
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Remove outdated save history records
–library/object level
Produce Media Movement report
Expire media
Clean up old BRMS log entries
Produce the Media Expiration report (newly
expired)
Produce the Media report of expired volumes
Produce the Media Information report
Produce the Recovery Analysis report
Produce the Recovery Volume Summary report
Produce the ASP Information report
Collect and apply media usage and error statistics
Produce the Location Analysis report
Run cleanup
Retrieve the volume statistics
Print a version control report
Print recovery reports by location
Reorganize BRM Databases
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Overview
What is your backup strategy?

Backup window? 1. Full system save in

two hours.
Data to be saved, when, where, and how? 2. Incr's with SWA.
3. IFS is backed up.
–Media? 4. Media in offsite
–Days of the week? location.

–Full or Incrementally?
–How often?
Are you getting all your data?
Where do you want your media to reside?

....and many more that should be asked!

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Overview
Do you have all you need for Disaster Recovery?

Media Information (QUSRBRM) backed up?

Recovery Analysis Report printed and at the location of media?
Tested Recoveries?

Can you put Humpty Dumpty

back together again?

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Resources
BRMS education
–Introduction to BRMS,
Course #S6219 4.5 Days
w/Hands-On Labs
BRMS Redbook
–"Practical Guide to
Managing BRMS/400"
SG24-4840
IBM Support Line @ 1-800-
237-5511
BRMS Web Site
–www-
1.ibm.com/servers/eserver
/iseries/service/brms.htm

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Additional Functions
Additional functions made available in BRMS's Base product.
BRMS GUI
Functional Authority
BRMS TSM Client
Online Lotus Server Backups

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BRMS GUI

Stages
–V5R1 Stage 1, Basic Function
–V5R2 Stage 2, MLB support, some networking
–V5R3 Stage 3, All Function, but HSM and Containers
–V5R4 Stage 4, HSM
New function focused on GUI
–Object Omit lists (V5R3)
–Reclaim wizard (V5R3)
Better interfaces for Restoring/Network Setup/TSM Setup.

Try it out!!!
Student Guide available via BRMS web page!
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Functional Authority
Ability to control usage of BRMS functions

Restrict access for a user from an area of BRMS function (backup, recovery,
archive, movement....)
Allow usage, but restrict access to change specific BRMS objects (control groups,
list, and policies)

Does not replace IBM i5/OS

Security

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TSM
The iSeries can be used as a TSM Client
The TSM Client will utilize BRMS
TSM Server (any platform) will be seen as BRMS media

VM
OS/400
MVS
AIX
Solaris
TSM PC Client TSM Backup
HP-UX
Windows

Tape Backup TSM SERVER

TSM/400 Client

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Online Lotus Server Backup

True Online Backup Capability!

Better than SWA - no sync points

Lotus Server Backup Control Groups created for you
Included in Disaster Recovery Reports
Restore made easy!
Point-in-time restore.

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Online Lotus Server - Backup

Sample of entries in a Lotus Server control group...

Display Backup Control Group Entries

RCHBRM

Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : QLTSDOM00
Default activity . . . . . . . : *BKUPCY
Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .: LTSSVR01

Backup
Seq Items Exit command
10 *EXIT
20 *EXIT QNOTES/SAVDOMBRM SERVER('LTSSVR01') CTLGRP(QLTSDOM00)
30 *EXIT

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Online Lotus Server - Initialize BRMS

**Note: Special values are only in releases

V5R3 or greater.

More information about Lotus Server Backups available at URL:

http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/service/brms/domino.html
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What’s new and HOT in BRMS V5R4??

• IFS parallel support

• New Virtual Tape support
• Missed Object control group
• Email notification (available
w/Network feature)
• Customized recovery steps
• Use of the new i5/OS spoolfile
support
• Error recovery exits

For information on more new features in BRMS V5R4, check out URL:
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/service/brms/new.html

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