I am currently running TSM V5.5 on AIX.  I am setting up a TSM V6.2 server on 
Linux at a new data center.  I would like to use backup sets to transfer client 
data from the old to the new data centers. This backupset data will be used to 
populate the newly built clients - not as a backup data store.  Both the old 
and new data centers have IBM TS1120 drives in their TS3500 libraries.  I don't 
plan to attach each client to tape drives and would perform the backupset 
restore via TSM server.

Does anyone know or have experienced creating a backup set on a TSM V5 server 
on AIX and then recovering that backup to a TSM V6 server on Linux? The Linux 
server would need to generate a TOC from the tape created by the AIX server.

The TSM V6.2 server should be able to work with the backup set.  It is the OS 
tape read/write compatibility that I am unsure of.  I don't currently have a 
Linux box to play with and cannot test this scenario.

Your comment is highly welcomed.

Thank you,
Neil Strand 
Storage Engineer - Legg Mason 
Baltimore, MD. 
(410) 580-7491 
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