Re: Merging two server into one

You will require additional storage resources, either tape or
disk. The export facility will write all of your TSM data to new
storage, and the import will then transfer that data to still new
storage (which could be the original storage on the exported
server). In any case, you will need to have double the amount of
space available for the actual export, because the data will
occupy at least two locations for the duration of the
export/import process.

 -- Tom

Thomas A. La Porte
DreamWorks SKG
tlaporte AT anim.dreamworks DOT com

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Jolley, Bill wrote:

>If the Private and Scratch Categories are different for each server, how
>then would the import/export facility handle those? We took over ADSM with
>two servers located
>on one AIX SP node and would like to consolidate them. I have sought
>assistance from
>TSM support and received very little. Could this be a difficult task?
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joshua S. Bassi [mailto:jbassi AT IHWY DOT COM]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 11:59 AM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: Merging two server into one
>
>
>You can use the TSM import/export facility to do this.
>
>
>--
>Joshua S. Bassi
>Independent IT Consultant
>IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark
>Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM
>Cell (408)&(831) 332-4006
>jbassi AT ihwy DOT com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
>Andreas Rensch
>Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 7:54 AM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Merging two server into one
>
>Hi TSM-/ADSM-ers,
>
>is there a possibility to merge two TSM servers into one?
>
>Our situation describes as follows : We have two TSM servers - both at
>OS/390 - which share the same range of tapes. Now we want to move to the
>Sun
>Solaris platform. We planned to take our first TSM server as a base for
>the
>new TSM server on Solaris. But we have about 150 tapes on our second TSM
>server and want to avoid to copy all these tapes. Is there another way
>to
>get this data into the first TSM server?
>
>One option is to define the clients of the second TSM server at the
>first
>TSM server, make first a full backup and then incremental backups. The
>problem with this option is that we loose our backup history.
>
>Any other idea?
>
>mfg / regards
>
>andreas rensch / StorageManagement / rz-qs
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