Yes, I have done it.

There is no direct or easy way to move a TSM system from one platform to
another.
The data and the TSM data base are not in a compatible format between
Windows & AIX.

If it is practical for you, the simple solution is to start clients backing
up to the new Windows server, 
and just keep the old AIX server around until the data expires.  For that to
work you would need a new tape library, or need to SHARE your tape library
between the two TSM servers for a while.

If you want to move the data to the new Windows TSM server and you have
compatible media (same type of drives in the tape library), you can EXPORT
the data from the old server, and IMPORT it into the new server.  For this
to work, you should be sure that the new AIX TSM server is at the same level
(5.1.6) as your old server.  This is obviously takes a lot of time for you.

If you don't have compatible media, you can set up server-to-server
communications (if you have the DRM license, or TSM Extended Edition) and
send the data from one server to the other.  This takes even more time to
do.

It is a not a trivial project, no matter which way you do it.

Wanda Prather
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
443-778-8769

"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" -
Dilbert/Scott Adams 


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Francois Chevallier
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 8:16 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: migration from unix to windows


I want to migrate my TSM server (5.1.6) from a aix system to a windows
system (because of the cost of disks) . Is somebody has an idea about that
? Thanks
Cordialement

François Chevallier
Parc Club du Moulin à Vent
33 av G Levy
69200 - Vénissieux
tél : 04 37 90 40 56  / 06 10 68 15 50