> Is it possible to restore a TSM 4.1 server running on Windows NT to a > Solaris server? > > I'm practicing some DR stuff, and my scenario is that one of our WinNT > TSM4.1 servers has crashed, and we need to restore the latest BACKUP DB > data, but onto a Solaris server on our disastersite. > > Is that possible? I receive mysterious "ANR1368W Input volume 16440215.DBB > contains sequence number 16777216; volume sequence number 1 is required." > when doing my DSMSERV RESTORE DB.
SPARC is a so-called big-endian architecture, with the most significant byte of multi-byte integer having the lowest memory address, while the Intel x86 family has a little-endian architecture, with the least significant byte of a multi-byte integer having the lowest memory address. A little- endian system would represent a four-byte integer with a value of 1 as hexadecimal 01000000. A big-endian system reading the same sequence of bytes as a four-byte integer would come up with a value of 16777216. This provides a plausible explanation for the message, and makes me very pessimistic about restoring a Windows TSM database backup on a Solaris system.
