On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 06:48:52AM -0800, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote:

> 1. If you do not have the volhist file, but you do have all the tapes, is it
> possible to restore the "last" dbbackup to the TSM server?

Yes, that is possible. I have done that myself, as a bonus during a DR
test. One caveat: you need to know on which tape the latest dbbackup is, of
course.

If you don't know, you could try each tape, but that would be a very
lengthy process I presume.

> 2. Is it possible to restore the DB to a server if you don't have an admin
> user and password?

Yes; the dsmserv command doesn't ask for a password. Since passwords are
stored in the database, this is logical: when restoring, there is no
database to get the usernames and passwords from.

> 3. Is there a utility to read any tapes outside of TSM?

Don't know that, sorry. I presume this would be difficult though. TSM
itself has a hard time reading tapes without the accompanying database.

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