This chapter provides information about how to add, change, remove, and review stand-alone and media library tape devices in BRMS. During installation, BRMS automatically registers and initializes the devices attached to your System i® product and creates corresponding device information entries. BRMS creates a default device based on the fastest and most automated device attached at that time (if more than one device is attached or registered. Otherwise BRMS uses the sole attachment as the default device). Unless you change it, BRMS sends all of your backup and recovery requests to the default device. In this chapter, you learn how to change or remove device information for existing devices, and also how to add new devices to the system.
BRMS works with all standard System i tape and optical devices. IBM® continually enhances BRMS to work with new and improved devices. BRMS does not support diskette, unlabeled or nonstandard label tape.