iSeries (AS/400) - Backing Up Your System(s) - Business Recovery And Media Services (BRMS)

Overview

The standard components of BRMS can be split into three basic services:

Backup Service:
The BRMS backup service assists you in establishing a disciplined approach to designing and managing your backup operations. It helps you to define, process, monitor and report your backup activities. Use BRMS to backup all the data on your iSeries or AS/400 system including objects in libraries, folders, directories, spooled files, security information, system configurations and the operating system itself. To do this, you can use the default backup control groups, already set up in BRMS, or you can design your own backups to suit more specific needs.

Recovery Service:
The BRMS recovery service provides for the retrieval of lost or damaged data. Its most important feature is a series of recovery reports that take you, step-by-step, through the recovery of your system. These reports not only contain restore instructions, but also indicate which media volumes should be used. With BRMS, you can restore your entire system, or selected items such as control groups, libraries, objects, folders, auxiliary storage pools (ASPs), spooled files, or integrated file system (IFS) links.

Media Management Service:
The BRMS media management service tracks all of your tapes and save files. Media is tracked through all cycles from tape creation to expiration. The tracking process includes active use, storage location and return to scratch pool availability. BRMS tracks your media until you remove it from the media inventory or until its use is disabled due to usage thresholds or poor quality.

BRMS is a complex product and realising its full benefits is not always straightforward. ATS's BRMS service takes you through defining a backup strategy, taking into account your recovery requirements, through to implementation and training.

Deliverables:

• Backup strategy definition
• Backup strategy implemented through BRMS
• Knowledge transfer on implementation and maintenance tasks
• Set-up and operational tasks documented

Benefits:

• Backup strategy defined and implemented through BRMS by experienced consultants
• Detailed reporting
• Very efficient recovery process
• Requires little intervention

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