Detailed Course Outline
Day 1
- Welcome and eLab overview
- Unit 1: Installing BRMS
- Unit 2: BRMS policies overview
- Exercise 1: Using 5250 emulation
- Exercise 2: Using System i Navigator
- Exercise 3: Using IBM Navigator for i
- Unit 3: Media devices and encryption using software and hardware
- Unit 4: Overview and implementation of virtual tape, DVD, and optical device support
- Exercise 4: Media devices and virtual tape
- Unit 5: Creating a simple backup control group
Day 2
- Review
- Unit 6: BRMS log
- Exercise 5: Creating a basic backup control group using 5250 green screen
- Exercise 6: Creating a basic backup control group using System i Navigator
- Exercise 7: Creating a basic backup control group using IBM Navigator for i
- Unit 7: Saving IFS data
- Unit 8: Working with backup lists
- Exercise 8: Creating and using backup lists and saving to a save file
- Exercise 9: Creating and using backup lists and saving to a save file using System i Navigator
- Exercise 10: Creating and using backup lists and saving to a save file using IBM Navigator for i
- Unit 9: Parallel save, user exits, and save-while-active
- Unit 10: Performing a backup and full system backup
- Unit 11: Other backup topics
- Exercise 11: Creating a backup control group
- Exercise 12: Creating a backup control group using System i Navigator
- Exercise 13: Creating a backup control group using IBM Navigator for i
Day 3
- Unit 12: Storage locations
- Exercise 14: Creating a storage location
- Unit 13: Containers
- Unit 14: Move management
- Exercise 15: Move policies
- Unit 15: Media class
- Exercise 16: Creating a media class
- Unit 16: Media policies
- Exercise 17: Creating a media policy
- Unit 17: Media topics
- Exercise 18: Running a backup using 5250 emulation
- Exercise 19: Running a backup using System i Navigator
Day 4
- Exercise 20: Running a backup using IBM Navigator for i
- Review Exercises 18 through 20
- Unit 18: BRMS networking
- Unit 19: Scheduling BRMS jobs
- Unit 20: Daily maintenance
- Unit 21: BRMS reports
- Unit 22: Recovery
- Exercise 21: BRMS recovery capabilities
- Unit 23: Tape duplication and label print
- Exercise 22: Tape duplication
- Unit 24: Functional usage
Day 5
- Unit 25: Archive
- Unit 26: Retrieval
- Exercise 23: Archive/retrieve using 5250 emulation
- Unit 27: TSM Client and BRMS on IBM i
- Unit 28: BRMS Enterprise
- Unit 29: Summary