The standard BRMS product assists you in defining and processing
your backup, recovery, and media management operations. Through user-defined
controls, BRMS works in conjunction with your System i platform to
manage your most critical and complex backups while simplifying day-to-day
operational tasks. The standard BRMS product provides three basic
functions.
Backup: BRMS backup
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 back up all
of the data on your System i platform 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 backup operation to suit more specific needs.
Recovery: BRMS recovery
provides for the orderly 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 volumes the system requires
for the recovery. 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 links.
Media Management: BRMS media management
tracks all of your tapes and save files. Media is tracked through
all cycles from media 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 it is otherwise disabled due to usage threshold
or poor quality rating. BRMS also records and updates changes to
the media inventory.
Figure 2 illustrates how BRMS processes
backups and recoveries through the media management system. Policies,
control groups, and devices link the backup and recovery processes.
Figure 2. How the standard functions work together
Policies and control groups tell BRMS how and what to back up
or recover. The media management system tells BRMS where to store
the data and where to retrieve it.
