As far as restoring to a different platform, the answer is no.  We initially
thought about doing something like this for disaster recovery, but were told
that there is no cross platform support for this type of operation.  The only
way to move things to different platforms is via Export/Import.

As for file names, etc. even on the same type of platform, you probably will
have problems, but there may be some ticks I'm not aware of.  However, you
have identified some critical points about the fact that information about
ADSM's own system is stored internally within ADSM itself, making "non
standard" restores tricky at best.

Jerry Lawson
jlawson AT thehartford DOT com


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Subject: Rebuilding DB and Log vols for DB Recovery
Author:  INTERNET.OWNERAD at SNADGATE
Date:    7/24/97 3:18 PM


Hi, one last one from me....

I have tried restoring the ADSM database to a system where the DB volumes
are not using exactly the same name/path, and I get errors.  I have tried
to get around this by manually editing the dsmserv.dsk file to no avail.
It appears that the volume names are stored in the recovery log for one
thing, so this may not be possible for at least a roll-forward recovery.

I guess my question is: Is there any way to restore a DB Backup to a DB
that is at least as large as the original, but perhaps with different
volume names (and even perhaps on a different server platform)?

Thanks again,

Scott McCambly                                             scottm AT unopsys 
DOT com
AIX / UNIX Specialist
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