Yep. It's not export to "tape", but to "sequential media". So anything you set up as sequential media will work.
You'll need to create a devclass of type FILE that points to the directory, and use the filename as the "volume" name to export to. (I think it's actually easier to just create the filesystem/directory and then let TSM generate the file name by specifying "scratch", but either way will work.) Then you will need to create a similar devclass of type=FILE on the target server to do the import. Easy peasy. Wanda -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alford, Ben Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 7:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM Export / Import to FC SAN Disk? We need to copy backup data for two nodes from our old TSM server to our new one. These nodes have retention policies of seven years, so we think export/import is the way to go. The old and new TSM servers are on the same FC network and we have defined a large 2 TB file on the FC SAN. The old server has LTO3 tapes in its library and the new one is LTO6, so we would rather not move tapes back and forth. Note that LTO6 cannot read an LTO cart anyway. The idea is to mount the SAN disk on the old server; export the node to it; unmount it from the old server, zone it to the new server and mount it; run the import node cmd. The examples seem to all mention export to tape or server-2-server. Can a single SAN disk be used instead? We are running TSM 6.1 on Linux on the old box and TSM 6.3 on Linux the new server. Thanks! Ben Alford The University of Tennessee
