My point was, which I obvously failed to make,, was that it's a programming
issue that is doable, given the will to do it.
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On 12 mrt 2009, at 16:29, Richard Rhodes wrote:
> I know moving disk storage based file systems between unix servers
I'd love to know how you'd mount a reiserfs on AIX :P or even a UFS on
AIX. This is a very broad statement. In some cases this might work, in
most it won't.
>
> 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.
>
Oracle! What does oracle have to do with TSM? (yes I know you can
backup Oracle database to TSM).
> Rick
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> Paul Zarnowski
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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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