Moving the TSM server using a database backup/restore is not a supported 
operation. I think this is also clearly stated on the TSM website.

The problem is not in the actual way that TSM is writing data to the tapes but 
how the OS is writing labels and stuff to the tapes in question.

Regards

Daniel Sparrman

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Ämne: Re: TSM 6.1 - can I do a X server platform database restore?

I know moving disk storage based file systems between unix servers
possible, so I would think it could be done for tape.  We have swung disk
storage from  hpux/vxvm/vxfs/oracle systems to aix/vxvm/vxfs/oracle systems
to migrate from hpux to aix.  You have to run some utilities on vxvm and
oracle to do it, but they run in just a few min - no oracle export/import
required.

Rick








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Andy,

I admit that I have never actually tried to do this.  The furthest I got
was talking to TSM Support and Development, a couple of years ago, and they
indicated that this was not supported.  I was told at that time that
different platforms write tapes differently.  Hearing that it was not
supported, I was not willing to bet the enterprise on an unsupported
process, even if it appeared to work.  I try to avoid those kind of time
bombs.

IBM: If this could actually work for certain platform migrations, it would
be useful to the user community to actually support something like
this.  I'm sure there are many installations out there that have reason to
change OS platforms over the years, and would want to do so without
exporting/importing ALL of their data.

..Paul

At 06:01 PM 3/11/2009, Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT wrote:
>Not doubting the power of the Holiday Inn Express, but in the past I had a
>Windows LAN-free client whose tapes were reclaimed by an AIX TSM server,
>which would leave me to conclude that AIX somehow managed to read the
>tapes, even though they were written with a crayon.  Also AIX did make
>some off-site copies of these LAN-free tapes.
>
>Andy Huebner
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
>Paul Zarnowski
>Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 4:49 PM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.1 - can I do a X server platform database
restore?
>
>Tapes are written in different formats on different platforms, so the
>answer to your question is "no".  You would have to export all of the data
>from Windows and import to AIX, not just the database.
>
>No, I'm not from development, but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express
last
>night!
>
>..Paul
>
>At 05:41 PM 3/11/2009, Joerg Pohlmann wrote:
> >Could someone from development please comment - since the database for
TSM
> >6.1 is DB2, can I move from a TSM server on for example, Windows to a
TSM
> >server on for example, AIX by restoring the database and then updating
any
> >tape device names in the path definitions?
> >
> >Joerg Pohlmann
> >250-245-9863
>
>
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