It won't be cheap, but an Index Engines machine can do this. We have one that we use for e-discovery. It can actually read TSM backup tapes without a TSM DB. http://www.indexengines.com/
Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago [email protected] "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." - Edward V Berard On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Shawn Drew wrote: >TSM is not designed to do this and there is no documentation on recovering >data without the appropriate database. This is why the manuals stress the >importance of protecting the database. > >That said, there are binaries out there and have seen them on sourceforge >or google code that can dump the contents of a ADSM/TSM tape. I never >tried it myself and would definitely take some time to figure out. > >There are also some archiving/recovery companies that are able to read TSM >tapes for indexing and restoring using their proprietary software. > >Regards, >Shawn >________________________________________________ >Shawn Drew > > > > > >Internet >[email protected] > >Sent by: [email protected] >07/11/2012 11:10 PM >Please respond to >[email protected] > > >To >ADSM-L >cc > >Subject >[ADSM-L] how to restore files from TSM backup tapes w/o TSM db > > > > > > >Hi all, > We had a monthly backup job in our TSM system and the data must be >kept forever without purging the TSM database. Recently, we found that we >couldn't restore some users' database in 2010. During the troubleshooting >process, we further found that some users' backup records for 2008, 2009, >2010 were missing in TSM database. We reported the case to IBM and they >said that the data could not be restored without a health TSM database. > >We have all monthly backup tapes on-hand. Would you all kindly advise me >how to restore the files in the monthly backup tapes without using the TSM >database? > >Thanks a lot. > >Regards, >KK > >+---------------------------------------------------------------------- >|This was sent by [email protected] via Backup Central. >|Forward SPAM to [email protected]. >+---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >This message and any attachments (the "message") is intended solely for >the addressees and is confidential. If you receive this message in error, >please delete it and immediately notify the sender. Any use not in accord >with its purpose, any dissemination or disclosure, either whole or partial, >is prohibited except formal approval. The internet can not guarantee the >integrity of this message. BNP PARIBAS (and its subsidiaries) shall (will) >not therefore be liable for the message if modified. Please note that certain >functions and services for BNP Paribas may be performed by BNP Paribas RCC, >Inc. >
