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<h1 class="topictitle1">Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS)</h1>
<div><p>IBM<sup>®</sup> 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.</p>
<p><img src="./delta.gif" alt="Start of change" />BRMS is the IBM strategic solution for planning and managing save
and restore operations on your iSeries™ server. BRMS base product provides
all of the functions that most iSeries users need to implement a fully
automated, single system, backup, recovery, and media management strategy.
Using BRMS, you can manage your most critical and complex saves, including
online backups of Lotus<sup>®</sup> servers, simply and easily. It also supports
parallel saves of a library or single object using up to 32 tape devices,
which shortens the save window by using multiple devices. You can also recover
your system fully in the event of a disaster or failure or restore single
objects or libraries from your save media. BRMS can also perform some daily
maintenance activities that are related to your backup routine.<img src="./deltaend.gif" alt="End of change" /></p>
<p><img src="./delta.gif" alt="Start of change" />In addition to these backup and recovery features, BRMS can
support and manage an unlimited number of media, shared tape devices, automated
tape libraries, virtual tape devices, and IBM Tivoli<sup>®</sup> Storage Manager servers. BRMS
enables you to track all of your media from creation to expiration. You no
longer have to keep track of which items are on which volumes, and worry that
you will accidentally write over active data. <img src="./deltaend.gif" alt="End of change" /></p>
<p><img src="./delta.gif" alt="Start of change" />As your business needs change and grow, you can add function
to the BRMS base product by purchasing and installing additional options.
The Network feature of the BRMS product provides centralized management of
multiple BRMS systems within a network using native TCP/IP, Advanced Peer-to-Peer
Network (APPN), or both. A BRMS network system shares the inventory and policies
associated with media managed within BRMS network group. In addition, users
can view the save history of any system in the network from a single system.
The networking feature also simplifies media duplication by using one system
in the network to duplicate media on behalf of another system in the network.
The systems in a BRMS network can be other iSeries systems or individual i5/OS™ partitions.<img src="./deltaend.gif" alt="End of change" /></p>
<p><img src="./delta.gif" alt="Start of change" />The Advanced Feature of the BRMS product enables Hierarchical
Storage Manager (HSM) archive with HSM dynamic retrieval and automated disk
pool data migration. Parallel saves works with the BRMS Advanced Feature to
allow for parallel archive and parallel dynamic retrieval of a single object.
The ability to dynamically retrieve a large database file in parallel helps
to reduce the window of the retrieval process. Therefore, it increases the
rewards for using HSM archive and dynamic retrieval support. The BRMS Advanced
Feature allows archive capabilities of database files, stream files, and documents
based on frequency of use, inactivity limit, object size, or disk pool thresholds.<img src="./deltaend.gif" alt="End of change" /></p>
<p>BRMS provides both the traditional character-based interface and a graphical
user interface (GUI), which is available as a plug-in to iSeries Navigator.
These interfaces are not mutually exclusive. You can either choose both
interfaces, using the character-based interface for some tasks and the BRMS
plug-in for others, or you can choose to use one interface exclusively. However,
differences between these BRMS interfaces do exist and you should be aware
of them.</p>
<div class="important"><span class="importanttitle">Important:</span> BRMS is not a replacement for a backup, recovery, and
media management strategy; it is a tool that you use to implement your strategy.
Before you start doing backups using BRMS or any other product, you should
plan your backup and recovery strategy.</div>
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<ul class="ullinks">
<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzai8what.htm">What's new for V5R4</a></strong><br />
For V5R4, iSeries Navigator plug-in for Backup, Recovery and
Media Services for i5/OS contains numerous new functions and enhancements.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzai8print.htm">Printable PDF</a></strong><br />
Use this to view and print a PDF of this information.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzai8oa.htm">Advantages of using BRMS</a></strong><br />
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.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><img src="./delta.gif" alt="Start of change" /><strong><a href="rzai8compat.htm">BRMS interface differences</a></strong><img src="./deltaend.gif" alt="End of change" /><br />
You can manage backups, recovery operations and your media with
BRMS by using either the BRMS plug-in to iSeries Navigator or through the character-based
interface. If you have used the character-based interface in the past and
want to use the BRMS plug-in, you should be aware of the differences between
these two interfaces.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzai8setup.htm">Set up BRMS</a></strong><br />
You can work with Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) plug-in
to iSeries Navigator
once you have installed the program on your system.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzai8oahowto.htm">Transition to BRMS</a></strong><br />
If you are already using Operational Assistant or iSeries Navigator
Backup for your backups, and would like to switch to BRMS because of the advantages
it offers, you could easily migrate your backup strategy to BRMS.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzai8scenario_overview.htm">Scenarios: How one company uses BRMS</a></strong><br />
JKL Toy Company, a fictitious business, uses Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) to perform backup and recovery operations on three of their servers. You can use these examples to create your own backup policies and media management strategy with BRMS.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzai8globalpolicy.htm">Specify global policy properties</a></strong><br />
Find out how to use global policy properties to control how BRMS operations occur on your server.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzai8backup.htm">Back up your server</a></strong><br />
You can create backup policies to easily control and manage your backup operations.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><img src="./delta.gif" alt="Start of change" /><strong><a href="rzai8archiveman.htm">Use archives</a></strong><img src="./deltaend.gif" alt="End of change" /><br />
Archiving provides a method of saving disk space by saving infrequently used objects to media, then removing them from the disk. During the archive operation, the disk storage on the system is freed, thus allowing you to store more vital data in that disk space.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzai8restore.htm">Restore items on your server</a></strong><br />
You can use Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) to restore individual objects or files.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzai8managedevices.htm">Manage devices</a></strong><br />
You can use Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) to display,
add, remove, and change the properties of any standalone devices, media libraries,
and Tivoli Storage
Manager (TSM) servers used for your saves.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><img src="./delta.gif" alt="Start of change" /><strong><a href="rzai8diskpools.htm">Manage disk pools</a></strong><img src="./deltaend.gif" alt="End of change" /><br />
Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) allows you to manage information about the disk pools that are used during save operations.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzai8mediaoverview.htm">Manage your media</a></strong><br />
Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) keeps an inventory of media and simplifies media management by tracking everything in that inventory-- what pieces of information are saved where and which media have available space.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzai8maint.htm">Run BRMS maintenance</a></strong><br />
Running maintenance on your server automatically performs Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) cleanup. updates save information, and runs reports.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzai8reports.htm">View or print BRMS reports</a></strong><br />
Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) provides powerful reporting capabilities to help you manage your saves more effectively and track the information that BRMS records.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzai8related.htm">Related information for BRMS</a></strong><br />
Use other resources, such as manuals, Redbooks, and web sites, to learn more about Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS).</li>
</ul>
<div class="relinfo"><strong>Related information</strong><br />
<div><a href="../rzaj1/rzaj1overview.htm">Plan your backup and recovery strategy</a></div>
<div><a href="../books/sc415345.pdf" target="_blank">Backup, Recovery and Media Services for iSeries</a></div>
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