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The following are answers to some frequently asked questions about the BRMS iSeries Navigator Client.

	What differences are there in terminology between the green screens and the BRMS Client?
	What functions are available through the BRMS Client?
	Are the BRMS Client Backup Policies viewable and runnable from green screen?
	What modifications does the BRMS Client make to the green screen created backup control group, and are the changes compatible?
	Do the BRMS Client Backup Policies support all the attributes and functions of green screen backup control groups?
	Does the BRMS Client provide functions that the green screens do not?
	What save media does the BRMS Client support?
	Where can I find my media policies in the BRMS Client?
	Does the BRMS Client use any green screen Backup Policy attributes?
	Does the BRMS Client use any green screen System Policy attributes?
	Does the BRMS Client support Archive and Retrieve operations?
	Do BRMS Client Backup Policies use the green screen global omits list?

You will find these differences between BRMS Client and green screen terminology.

• The BRMS Client term Backup Policy refers to the combined attributes of a green screen backup control group and a media policy.
• The BRMS Client term Changes only backup is the same as a Cumulative backup in the green screens.
• The BRMS Client term Media pool is the same as a Media Class in the the green screens.
• The BRMS Client term Disk pool is the same as an Auxiliary storage pool in the green screens.
• The BRMS Client term Global Properties is the same as the System policy in the green screens.

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The BRMS Client functions are fully documented in the student guides. A summary of these functions by release is as follows:

Version 5 Release 1

If you currently use the green screen interface, you will not find the robust function in the BRMS iSeries Navigator client that you are used to. For this version of the BRMS client you will be able to perform the following tasks:

• Create and run a backup policy
• Restore individual items
• Schedule items to be backed up and restored
• Print a system recovery report
• View the backup history (media information in the green screen)
• Run BRMS maintenance activities
• Run policies that are shipped with BRMS
• Add media
• View the backup and recovery log
• Display and manage tape media

Functions that are not available are:

• Creating and running move policies
• Managing advanced functions, such as hierarchical storage management
• Creating backup policies using:
  • Media libraries
  • Parallel devices
  • Save files
  • Tivoli Storage Manager servers
• Managing the BRMS Network

Version 5 Release 2

The BRMS iSeries Navigator client was significantly enhanced with V5R2. These enhancements include:

• A Move Policy wizard and move policy properties to help you create and maintain move policies and to optionally create new locations. In addition, media functions and tasks were added to enable you to perform and verify media movement operations.
• New backup policy properties allow you to specify media libraries, save files and TSM servers as backup devices with options to enable and specify parallel device backups. You can now specify the days of the week when running commands before and after the backup, or add special actions (exits) to be performed during backups. You can also define the type of incremental backup to use, what subsystems should be ended and/or restarted, and what job queues are to be held and/or released. You can also specify whether backup items are to be saved using save-while-active.
• New functions were added to the Backup Policies folder which allows you to create, update and manage your backup lists, and to save your backups saved to save files.
• New function was added to the Move Policies folder which allows you to create, update and manage your locations.
• A new Media Pools folder was added to the Media folder with functions provided for creating, updating and maintaining your media pools (classes).
• The Backup History Include panel has been enhanced with new options so you can filter the backup history based on expiration date, saved system, and disk pool name or number.
• The Volumes Include panel has been enhanced with new options so you can filter the volumes based on location, container, owning system, as well as, volumes marked for duplication, duplicated volumes, or secured volumes.
• Options were added to Run maintenance and cleanup so that you can now select the specific maintenance functions you want to run.
• Options were added to Print reports so that you can now select one or more BRMS reports of various types for printing on the iSeries server.
• Global properties were added to the plug-in. These properties let you specify whether TCP/IP is to be used for BRMS network operations. You can also specify notification controls, signoff exception and IPL controls using these global properties.
• The Restore wizard was enhanced to allow you to perform point-in-time recoveries of objects saved using online incremental Lotus ® server backups. In addition, the Restore wizard now supports restore of objects saved to TSM servers, objects saved to parallel devices, and objects saved to save files.

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The Backup Policies created by the BRMS Client can be viewed and run from the green screens.

Backup control groups and the assigned media policies can be viewed from Backup Policy properties by the BRMS Client. However, it is not recommended that green screen created backup control groups be modified using the BRMS Client unless the user is aware of certain modifications which will be made to conform to the BRMS Client design. A message will be presented to the user if a green screen backup control group is about to be modified by the BRMS Client. The user will have the opportunity to cancel the operation or continue.

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Note: If your current green screen Control Groups do not reference the System Policy (*SYSPCY), Backup Policy (*BKYPCY), and do not share Media Policies among Control Groups, then using the BRMS plug-in to iSeries Navigator (BRMS plug-in/client) to edit Backup Policies should have no functional impacts to your green screen created Control Groups. If this is not true, read on.

The backup policies created by the BRMS plug-in can be viewed and run from the green screen. Also, control groups created from the green screen can be viewed and edited via the BRMS plug-in Backup Policy Properties. However, changing control groups created on the green screen using the BRMS plug-in is not recommended unless you understand the following (note, a message will be presented to the user when a green screen created or edited control group is about to be changed by the BRMS plug-in; the user will have the opportunity to cancel the operation or continue):

• The BRMS plug-in backup policies are designed to be independent of each other. Thus, if you make changes to one policy, it will not affect the others. To ensure this independence, Control Groups updated with the BRMS plug-in will have all references to the green screen system policy (*SYSPCY) and backup policy (*BKYPCY) removed. These references will be resolved and replaced with the actual values when the backup policy is saved by the BRMS plug-in. Therefore, any attributes you change in the green screen backup policy or system policy do not affect Backup Policies created or edited by the BRMS plug-in. The exceptions to this are the Sign off exceptions and Subsystem to check controls in the system policy, which are used by the BRMS plug-in.
  
  
• The BRMS plug-in hides the Media Policy from the user (no BRMS plug-in functions exist to show or edit Media Policies). Media Policy attributes are indirectly shown and edited via Backup Policy properties. As mentioned earlier, the BRMS plug-in Backup Policies are designed to be independent of each other. To ensure this, the BRMS plug-in will create a new Media Policy based on the currently used one if the Control Group being edited contains a Media Policy that is used by other Control Groups or is a shipped BRMS Media Policy, If a new Media Policy is created, the Control Group will be changed to use the new one.
  
  
• When you create a new backup or archive policy using the BRMS plug-in, it will use new Media policies that are dynamically created.

See also FAQ " Do BRMS Client Backup Policies use the green screen global omits list?"

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Yes - all green screen backup control group functions are provided with the Version 5 Release 2 BRMS client

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The BRMS Client has several functions not available as attributes of green screen backup control groups. These functions include:

1. Ending Integrated Windows servers before backup.
2. Ending hosted logical partitions before backup.
3. Unmounting of user-defined file systems (UDFSs) before backup
4. Starting Integrated Windows servers after backup
5. Starting hosted logical partitions after backup.

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With Version 5 Release 2, the BRMS Client allows you to create Backup Policies using standalone tape devices, media libraries, save files, and Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) servers as the save media. The BRMS Client supports specifying use of parallel devices when saving libraries to tape devices or media libraries. This is the same level of function provided by green screens.

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The BRMS Client does not externalize green screen media policies. The attributes of the media policies are displayed as a subset of the BRMS Client Backup Policy properties. The BRMS Client still creates a full and incremental media policy on behalf of the user. These media policy can be viewed from the green screens. The naming convention for the automatically created media policies is Zyymmddnnn.

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Backup Policies created or modified by the BRMS Client use these elements found in the green screen Backup Policy.

• Items to Omit from Backup

See FAQ "What modifications does the BRMS Client make to the green screen created backup control group, and are the changes compatible?"

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Backup Policies created or modified by the BRMS Client use these elements found in the green screen System Policy.

• Home location for media
• Output queue/library
• Day start time
• Media monitor
• Shared inventory delay
• Auto enroll media
• Trace
• Default usage
• Network group

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Archive and retrieve operations are currently not supported by the BRMS Client.

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It depends: If no omits were added to the Client Backup Policy (i.e., green screen Control Group) via the BRMS Client Backup Policy Properties, the green screen global omits list will be used. If an omit is added via the Client Backup Policy Properties, then the green screen global omits list is not used or processed when the Client Backup Policy/Control Group is run. Note, this is true even when the Control Group that contains the BRMS Client added omit is run via green screen. Also, note that omits added via the Client Backup Policy Properties are added to the selected entry within a Client Backup Policy/Control Group and are not added to the global green screen omits list.

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