If you stay on the same platform-OS, all you need to do is shutdown (old 
server) after a final DB backup, move the HW connections to the new server, 
restore DB, and you're finished.  Remember to copy the dsmserv.dsk (filesystems 
for all TSM server files -- db, log, disk pool vols, logical volumes, 
path-names), as well as volhist, devcfg and dsmserv.opt;  move/re-org 
filesystems *after* the move.  Many other posts confirm this approach, have 
personally done it on AIX since v2 days.

Regards,

Don France 
Technical Architect - Tivoli Certified Consultant

Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E.) 
San Jose, CA 
(408) 257-3037 
don_france AT att DOT net 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Daniel Sparrman 
  To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU 
  Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 12:59 PM
  Subject: Consolidating TSM servers.


  Hi

  Anybody out there know if it's possible to do a export server, without having 
to export all filedata, and then do a import and use the existing tapes.

  We have one STK 9310 and one IBM 3494. Each TSM server has a copypool and a 
primary tape pool in the different libraries. All equipment is SAN connected, 
so if I could first do a DB backup/restore to the new machine of one of the TSM 
servers, and then export everything except for the file data from the second 
TSM server to the new machine, it would be perfect.

  Doing a export server filedata=all, would create about 1500 new tapes, 
according to a export server preview=yes (about 31TB of data) and this would 
probbaly not work at all.

  So, anybody done this before?

  Best Regards

  Daniel Sparrman


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