16 Integrating Backup Recovery and Media Services and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
2.1 General overview of the BRMS product
BRMS is the IBM strategic product on the iSeries server to assist in saving, restoring, and
managing media. BRMS has various backup options that allow you to specify what, when,
and where to save items. It allows for save while active and the ability to perform:
Full saves
Cumulative saves (saves only objects that changed since the most recent full BRMS save)
Incremental saves (saves only objects that changed since the most recent BRMS save of
any kind: full, cumulative, or incremental)
You can perform attended or unattended backups and schedule backups using the native
OS/400 job scheduler or the Advanced Job Scheduler ...