Tailoring your BRMS operations
You can customize BRMS to meet your backup and recovery needs.
- Working with devices in BRMS
This topic 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 IBM 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. - Setting up your media management operation
Use the BRMS Media Management service to set up an automated system that tracks your media through its entire life cycle from media creation through expiration and return to scratch pool availability. - Tailoring your backup
This topic provides detailed information about how to use a variety of BRMS tools and techniques to design and implement a customized backup strategy for your company. - Performing selected recoveries
This topic provides information about how to selectively restore single objects or groups of objects. - Daily maintenance in BRMS
The BRMS maintenance function regularly and automatically cleans and updates media records. Regular removal of expired records from media and media content information files allows you to make more efficient use of your media. - Scheduling backup and recovery jobs
You can run many of the functions that are performed by BRMS under the control of a job scheduler.
Parent topic: Backup, Recovery, and Media Services (BRMS)