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<h1 class="topictitle1">Advantages of using BRMS</h1>
<div><p>Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) provides
a robust, easy-to-use graphical user interface to perform save and recovery
operations and to manage media.</p>
<p><img src="./delta.gif" alt="Start of change" />On i5/OS™ there
are several ways to perform backup and recovery operations. You can use native
save and restore commands, the Save menu options or create CL programs. However,
BRMS provides a more dynamic solution that allows not only for your backup
and recovery needs, but also easier management of media and provides archiving
capabilities for infrequently used objects. BRMS provides the following added
functions that these other backup solutions do not have:<img src="./deltaend.gif" alt="End of change" /></p>
<dl><dt class="dlterm">Robust graphical user interface </dt>
<dd>The BRMS graphical user interface is available as an iSeries™ Navigator
plug-in. The BRMS interface provides more granular backups of individual
files and directories, the ability to create policies to control archives
and backups on your system, a simple save history query function to quickly
locate items to restore, and an easy, effective method of managing media and
devices used for BRMS save operations. </dd>
<dt class="dlterm">Tailored save operations</dt>
<dd>BRMS comes with several standard policies that cover your basic needs,
but you can also create customized policies that saves data based on your
company's specific needs. You have the options to create archive policies,
which provide a systematic way of saving infrequently used objects to media
to free space on the system, and backup policies, which perform save operations
on data that is critical to your day-to-day operations. You can also choose
to backup individual files or directories or perform incremental and online
backups of Lotus<sup>®</sup> servers
while they are still active.</dd>
<dt class="dlterm">Lotus server
online and incremental saves</dt>
<dd>BRMS enables you to save Lotus servers while they are active. You can also
easily define items to omit from the save operation.</dd>
<dt class="dlterm"> Enhanced save-while-active</dt>
<dd>BRMS allows you to use your server during all or part of the save process,
which can help you reduce or eliminate your down time for certain save operations.</dd>
<dt class="dlterm">Parallel save and restore support </dt>
<dd>BRMS provides the ability to save libraries and objects to multiple devices
at once. You can use up to 32 devices in this manner. </dd>
<dt class="dlterm">Network feature </dt>
<dd>By placing multiple systems in a BRMS network, you can share BRMS policies,
media information, and storage locations across the network. This allows you
to manage saves and restores across all of your systems in a consistent manner.</dd>
<dt class="dlterm">Media and device management</dt>
<dd>BRMS enables you to keep an inventory of your media and track everything
that is on them. When you do a backup, BRMS lets you know which tapes to use,
so you do not have to worry about writing over active data. In addition you
can manage devices, such as Tivoli<sup>®</sup> Storage Manager (TSM) servers, to store your
saved data.</dd>
<dt class="dlterm">Step-by-step disaster recovery</dt>
<dd>After every backup, you can print a disaster recovery report that will
guide you through the recovery of your system. It even tells you which media
you need to restore which pieces of the system. <strong>Note:</strong> It is recommended
that after every scheduled backup, you print your disaster recovery report.
In the event of an unplanned system outage, this report will help guide you
through a recovery of your entire system.</dd>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rzai8overview.htm" title="IBM Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) helps you implement a disciplined approach to managing your backups and provides you with an orderly way to retrieve lost or damaged data.">Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS)</a></div>
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<div class="relconcepts"><strong>Related concepts</strong><br />
<div><a href="rzai8lotus.htm" title="Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS )supports online backups of Lotus server databases (such as Domino and Quickplace). An online backup is a backup that you do while your Lotus server databases are in use; there are no save-while-active synchronization points. You can direct your online backups to a tape device, media library, save file, or a Tivoli Storage Manager server.">Online backups of Lotus servers</a></div>
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<div class="reltasks"><strong>Related tasks</strong><br />
<div><a href="rzai8media.htm" title="Once media is added to the BRMS inventory, you can view that media based on criteria that you specify, such as the volume name, status, media pool, or expiration date.">Work with media</a></div>
<div><a href="rzai8recover.htm" title="When you back up your system using BRMS, information about each backed up item is recorded in the save history. The information in the save history is used to create a recovery report, which steps you through a full system recovery. Should your system fail or a disaster occur, you can use the recovery report to recover your system to the point it was at before the failure.">Print recovery report</a></div>
<div><a href="rzai8create.htm" title="You can use the New Backup Policy wizard in iSeries Navigator to create a new backup policy.">Create a backup policy</a></div>
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