Hello I agree with you. Its what i did but not on 6.3 for the moment,to buggy! Saluti Maurizio
2011/11/17, Steven Harris <[email protected]>: > You have to move off TSM 5 sooner or later. Any reasonably sized TSM > installation takes too long to practically convert in place so you are > forced to install TSM 6 on a new server, start new backups and then > export/import the old data. This is an ideal time to change platform in > the process. > > Other than that take a look at www.butterflysoftware.com > > Regards > > Steve > > Steven Harris > TSM Admin, Canberra Australia > > > > On 17/11/2011 8:43 AM, Hans Christian Riksheim wrote: >> I am not of any help here but you say you are moving to Linux because >> it is cheaper. >> >> Our Power servers running TSM accounts for less than 3% of the yearly >> total cost for our backup infrastructure. Then we include licenses and >> man hours in addition to hardware and data center costs(floor space, >> power and cooling). >> >> Cutting off a little of those 3% is not an option for us if it means >> moving away from a rock solid platform. Even if Linux on Dell was >> handed to us free of charge we would stay on Power. But YMMV. >> >> Anyone else done the same calculation and found out what the cost of >> the physical servers amount to compared to total cost for the TSM >> infrastructure? Maybe you should. >> >> Hans Chr. >> >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Dury, John C.<[email protected]> wrote: >>> Our current environment looks like this: >>> We have a production TSM server that all of our clients backup to >>> throughout the day. This server has 2 SL500 tape libraries attached via >>> fiber. One is local and the other at a remote site which is connected by >>> dark fiber. The backup data is sent to the remote SL500 library several >>> times a day in an effort to keep them in sync. The strategy is to bring >>> up the TSM DR server at the remote site and have it do backups and >>> recovers from the SL500 at that site in case of a DR scenario. >>> >>> I've done a lot of reading in the past and some just recently on the >>> possible ways to migrate from an AIX TSM server to a Linux TSM server. I >>> understand that in earlier versions (we are currently at 5.5.5.2) of the >>> TSM server it allowed you to backup the DB on one platform (AIX for >>> instance) and restore on another platform (Linux for instance) and if you >>> were keeping the same library, it would just work but apparently that was >>> removed by IBM in the TSM server code to presumably prevent customers >>> from moving to less expensive hardware. (Gee, thanks IBM!<sigh>). >>> I posted several years ago about any possible ways to migrate the TSM >>> Server from AIX to Linux. >>> The feasible solutions were as follows: >>> >>> 1. Build new linux server with access to same tape library and then >>> export nodes from one server to the other and then change each node as >>> it's exported, to backup to the new TSM Server instead. Then the old >>> data in the old server can be purged. A lengthy and time consuming >>> process depending on the amount of data in your tape library. >>> >>> 2. Build a new TSM linux server and point all TSM clients to it but >>> keep the old TSM server around in case of restores for a specified period >>> of time until it can be removed. >>> >>> There may have been more options but those seemed the most reasonable >>> given our environment. Our biggest problem with scenario 1 above is >>> exporting the data that lives on the remote SL500 tape library would take >>> much longer as the connection to that tape library is slower than the >>> local library. I can probably get some of our SLAs adjusted to not have >>> to export all data and only the active data but that remains to be seen. >>> >>> My question. Has any of this changed with v6 TSM or has anyone come up >>> with a way to do this in a less painful and time consuming way? Hacking >>> the DB so the other platform code doesn't block restoring an AIX TSM DB >>> on a Linux box? Anything? >>> >>> Thanks again and sorry to revisit all of this again. Just hoping >>> something has changed in the last few years. >>> John >>> > -- Cordiali saluti / Meilleures salutations Maurizio Teruzzi http://www.teruzzi.ch ftp://ftp.teruzzi.ch Skype user: TERUZZI
