Yes, I have done it. There is no direct or easy way to move a TSM system from one platform to another. The data and the TSM data base are not in a compatible format between Windows & AIX.
If it is practical for you, the simple solution is to start clients backing up to the new Windows server, and just keep the old AIX server around until the data expires. For that to work you would need a new tape library, or need to SHARE your tape library between the two TSM servers for a while. If you want to move the data to the new Windows TSM server and you have compatible media (same type of drives in the tape library), you can EXPORT the data from the old server, and IMPORT it into the new server. For this to work, you should be sure that the new AIX TSM server is at the same level (5.1.6) as your old server. This is obviously takes a lot of time for you. If you don't have compatible media, you can set up server-to-server communications (if you have the DRM license, or TSM Extended Edition) and send the data from one server to the other. This takes even more time to do. It is a not a trivial project, no matter which way you do it. Wanda Prather Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory 443-778-8769 "Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" - Dilbert/Scott Adams -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Francois Chevallier Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 8:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: migration from unix to windows I want to migrate my TSM server (5.1.6) from a aix system to a windows system (because of the cost of disks) . Is somebody has an idea about that ? Thanks Cordialement Fran�ois Chevallier Parc Club du Moulin � Vent 33 av G Levy 69200 - V�nissieux t�l : 04 37 90 40 56 / 06 10 68 15 50
