We recently had our offsite/recover TSM server (RH Linux 6.4, TSM
6.3.4.200) go south.  Something happened that caused DB2 to start
crashing/dumping and subsequently completely filled the filesystem
containing /home/tsminst1 directory.  Since this was the root folder, the
system tanked and is now unrecoverable.  My OS guy says the root system
seems to be corrupted and will probably require a complete OS reinstall.

However, the filesystems containing the TSM DB, LOG and ARCHLOG files all
seem to be OK.

Since this is an offsite, non-critical server that simply stored DB
Snapshots of my other production TSM servers, nuking and rebuilding is not
a big deal, mostly lots of busy-work.  This could also give me the
opportunity to install and play with 7.1.

I would like to make this a "DR recovery" scenario/test.  Since the DB is
still there, can it be recovered from what remains, i.e. the /TSMDB,
/TSMLOG, /TSMARCHLOG filesystems?

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*Zoltan Forray*
TSM Software & Hardware Administrator
Virginia Commonwealth University
UCC/Office of Technology Services
zforray AT vcu DOT edu - 804-828-4807
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