Scenarios: How one company uses BRMS

JKL Toy Company, a fictitious business, uses Backup, Recovery, and Media Services (BRMS) to perform backup and recovery operations on three of their systems. You can use these examples to create your own backup control groups and media management strategy with BRMS.

Sharon Jones, the system administrator for the JKL Toy Company, is responsible for ensuring that all of their data is backed up and that they can recover their systems in the event of a disaster or system failure. Following is a diagram of JKL's network:

JKL has four System i® platforms that each serve a different purpose and have different backup, recovery, and availability needs. These systems are as follows:

• JKLDEV: This system is for development and is used primarily during the week and during the day, although there is some development activity into the evening hours and on weekends.
• JKLPROD: This is the system that JKL uses for all of their customer orders and where their business applications are installed (inventory control, customer orders, contracts and pricing, accounts receivable).
• JKLINT and JKLINT2: These systems are used for the JKL Web site and e-mail.

Sharon spends considerable time initially planning the backup strategy that would best meet JKL's needs. In doing so, she has to answer the following questions:

• What will it cost JKL if a system goes down?
• What are the availability requirements for each system?
• What is the backup window for each system?
• What data has to be backed up and how often does it have to be backed up?