Moving the TSM server using a database backup/restore is not a supported operation. I think this is also clearly stated on the TSM website.
The problem is not in the actual way that TSM is writing data to the tapes but how the OS is writing labels and stuff to the tapes in question. Regards Daniel Sparrman ________________________________________ Från: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [[email protected]] för Richard Rhodes [[email protected]] Skickat: den 12 mars 2009 16:29 Till: [email protected] Ämne: Re: TSM 6.1 - can I do a X server platform database restore? I know moving disk storage based file systems between unix servers possible, so I would think it could be done for tape. We have swung disk storage from hpux/vxvm/vxfs/oracle systems to aix/vxvm/vxfs/oracle systems to migrate from hpux to aix. You have to run some utilities on vxvm and oracle to do it, but they run in just a few min - no oracle export/import required. Rick Paul Zarnowski <[email protected] > To Sent by: "ADSM: [email protected] Dist Stor cc Manager" <[email protected] Subject .EDU> Re: TSM 6.1 - can I do a X server platform database restore? 03/12/2009 08:54 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected] .EDU> Andy, I admit that I have never actually tried to do this. The furthest I got was talking to TSM Support and Development, a couple of years ago, and they indicated that this was not supported. I was told at that time that different platforms write tapes differently. Hearing that it was not supported, I was not willing to bet the enterprise on an unsupported process, even if it appeared to work. I try to avoid those kind of time bombs. IBM: If this could actually work for certain platform migrations, it would be useful to the user community to actually support something like this. I'm sure there are many installations out there that have reason to change OS platforms over the years, and would want to do so without exporting/importing ALL of their data. ..Paul At 06:01 PM 3/11/2009, Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT wrote: >Not doubting the power of the Holiday Inn Express, but in the past I had a >Windows LAN-free client whose tapes were reclaimed by an AIX TSM server, >which would leave me to conclude that AIX somehow managed to read the >tapes, even though they were written with a crayon. Also AIX did make >some off-site copies of these LAN-free tapes. > >Andy Huebner > >-----Original Message----- >From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >Paul Zarnowski >Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 4:49 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.1 - can I do a X server platform database restore? > >Tapes are written in different formats on different platforms, so the >answer to your question is "no". You would have to export all of the data >from Windows and import to AIX, not just the database. > >No, I'm not from development, but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last >night! > >..Paul > >At 05:41 PM 3/11/2009, Joerg Pohlmann wrote: > >Could someone from development please comment - since the database for TSM > >6.1 is DB2, can I move from a TSM server on for example, Windows to a TSM > >server on for example, AIX by restoring the database and then updating any > >tape device names in the path definitions? > > > >Joerg Pohlmann > >250-245-9863 > > >-- >Paul Zarnowski Ph: 607-255-4757 >Manager, Storage Services Fx: 607-255-8521 >719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801 Em: [email protected] > > >This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally >privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized >representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, >copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. >If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender >immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any >attachments. >Thank you. -- Paul Zarnowski Ph: 607-255-4757 Manager, Storage Services Fx: 607-255-8521 719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801 Em: [email protected] ----------------------------------------- The information contained in this message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately, and delete the original message.
