Hi William Im sorry but you cant make TSM read data that was made with TAR and CPIO from tape. it just cant be done. however there are 2 ways out of this for you. first of all you can use both TAR and CPIO just to archive to your hard drive, then you can backup or acrhive your data. But there is another way for you to make it work with a tape, you need to use the "define recoverymedia" command in TSM and let the TSM server know about the tape with your TAR & CPIO data, then the TSM server knows that the tape is there and you can eaven define it into your library. Just remember TSM can never read the tape it self. you can only let the TSM Database know that it?s there.
Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartun 37 105 Iceland URL: http://www.nyherji.is -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of William SO Ng Sent: 22. agust 2002 05:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM reads tar/cpio data tape ? Hello TSMers, I have a questions about TSM. Is TSM able to read data directly from tape that use TAR or CPIO to backup ? What I would like to do is: put a tape into tape drive and the tape contain data that I use tar or cpio. TSM will be able to read the data and put these data into storage pool directly. I think it can't be done and one has to restore it to temp. directory and backup using TSM, right ? It is because TAR & CPIO was being used for backup before TSM but I want those data back and put it in TSM. Thanks & Regards William
