Introduction to BRMS for IBM i - Tom Huntington and Mervyn Venter

You know IBM’s Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) for i can help you track your media volumes, provide history about your backups, automate your backups, and guide you through a restore. But did you know that there’s a different way to set up BRMS if you’re using tape backups versus virtual tape libraries (VTLs)?

BRMS is available as a licensed program product (LPP) on IBM i, but you need to know how to set it up correctly. Otherwise you risk not having your irreplaceable IBM i data backed up properly.

Tom Huntington

Executive Vice President of Technical Solutions at HelpSystem

Tom Huntington is Executive Vice President of Technical Solutions at HelpSystems, and has been with the company for nearly 30 years. He works with business alliances, acquisitions and large customer relationships and ensures that the HelpSystems software works with other major software and hardware vendors worldwide.

Tom often speaks on enterprise scheduling, security, automation topics, IBM i technology, and the HelpSystems products, and hosts technical presentations on a variety of automation topics. He is the author of the HelpSystems IBM i Marketplace Survey and has written articles on automated operations, security, cloud computing, and business intelligence for leading trade journals and newsletters. He was named an IBM Champion in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 for over three decades of advocation and thought leadership on the IBM i platform.

Mervyn Venter

IBM i IT Managing Consultant, IBM

Mervyn Venter has been with IBM for nearly 40 years. He got his start working at IBM in South Africa and moved to IBM's IBM i Support Center in Rochester, Minnesota in 1997, where he worked primarily with BRMS. In 2012, Mervyn moved to IBM Lab Services to provide BRMS, SKLM, and HA services to IBM i customers. From 2013 to 2016, he went to Singapore on an assignment. Over the years, Mervyn has become a worldwide subject matter expert on BRMS for IBM i.