Re: Restore TSM server to different OS?

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Although it may be technically possible to do this move (though I 
doubt that you could go from Windows to a Unix platform), it is 
definitely not supported.

Wanda Prather had an excellent summary of the discussion when 
this came up again last fall:

http://msgs.adsm.org/cgi-bin/get/adsm0111/951.html

 -- Tom

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

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Daniel Sparrman wrote:

>Hi
> 
>Restoring the TSM server(database) to a different OS will work fine as
>long as you keep to an open systems platform such as Windows NT/2000,
>HP-UX, AIX or Solaris. Doing this on a AS/400 or S/390 wont work.
> 
>This will apply to doing a restore of the TSM database.
> 
>Best Regards
> 
>Daniel Sparrman
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>-----"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote: -----
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>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>From: Hans Hedlund <Hans.Hedlund AT ENSKILDA DOT SE>
>Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>Date: 03/19/2002 06:15PM
>Subject: Restore TSM server to different OS?
>
>Is it possible to restore a TSM 4.1 server running on Windows NT to a
>Solaris server?
>
>I'm practicing some DR stuff, and my scenario is that one of our WinNT
>TSM4.1 servers has crashed, and we need to restore the latest BACKUP DB
>data, but onto a Solaris server on our disastersite.
>
>Is that possible? I receive mysterious "ANR1368W Input volume
>16440215.DBB
>contains sequence number 16777216; volume sequence number 1 is required."
>when doing my DSMSERV RESTORE DB.
>
>Regards, Hans Hedlund
>
>
>
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