That depends on you and your company, and company retention.  Standard
practice here is to rename the node in TSM if all the data is going to
be the same because unless the file spaces autorename you'll have the
old file spaces separate from the new anyway.  This keeps you from
having to keep up with separate nodes. 
However, if you'd rather create a new node, and lock the old one the
result is about the same.  The only question is how long to keep the old
node / file spaces.  That's where retention comes in.  You'll need to
keep the old file spaces around for at least as long as the numdays
setting in the backup archive class.

See Ya'
Howard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> Of David Hensley
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 1:18 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Deleting and Adding nodes.
> 
> This is my  first post. I have servers that have been decommissioned
> that
> TSM was backing up. I also have new servers that replaced the old
> servers.
> My question is should I leave the old nodes in TSM for a while in case
> of a
> restore is needed? Can I just rename the nodes and point them to the
> new
> server?
> 
> 
> 
> Dave Hensley, Technical Analyst
> Information Services
> McNeilus Companies, Inc.
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