That is what I guessed from the docs. I was hoping I was wrong !

So, of what value would a DB backup to a "target" server be ?  I could
never recover from it !!!

Sounds like a partially implemented and of very limited use feature, to me
!!

Is anybody out there using a "target" server to perform backups of any
kind ?   If you do, the better question would be, why and how ?





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My understanding is that when you use source/target server, you think of
the
"target" TSM server as just an electronic vault.  It is NOT the same as
having a backup TSM server.

As you said, the objects in the target server's data base are archive
objects.  The metadata needed to restore the data is still in the DB of
the
SOURCE server.

So you won't be able to do restores, until you build a repair/recovery
source server and reload its DB.  Now someone else might reasonably expect
to reload the DB into a TSM server at the offsite location; but since you
are planning for the target/source TSM's to be on different platforms,
that
won't be an option.

You will need to rebuild the TSM server on your OS/390 recovery machine,
wherever that is.