"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 03/21/2006
02:00:35 PM:
> I'm migrating a TSM instance from AIX to Linux. I have a node that
> has a single filespace with about 5TB of data in it. Looking at the
> performance I'm getting I'd guess that the export node is going to
> take a week or two to complete - not good. And most likely I'll never
> get it to finish.
>
> So, is there anyway to restart a failed export node, or am I better
> of trying to scrounge up 5T of disk and restoring the data and then
> re-archiving it on the other end? Or, conversely, is there any way to
> export something at a finer granularity than filespace?

An export cannot be restarted, and there is no finer granularity available
than the filespace. You need to think about non-TSM ways to move the data
from one server to another.

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Mark Stapleton (mark.stapleton AT usbank DOT com)
MR Backup and Recovery Management
262.790.3190

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