Wanda, Al,

I was reading in the 5.1.5.2 README, I think.  There's now a functionality
to EXPORT directly to a server (not via virtual volumes).  Ah, here it is.

Alex Paschal
Storage Administrator
Freightliner, LLC
(503) 745-6850 phone/vmail

TSM 5.1.5 introduces 2 new features to the export/import functions:
  1) Customers will now be able to issue exports directly to another server
     and have the specified server perform the import immediately.
  2) The MERGEfilespaces option has been added to the import function to
     merge client files into existing filespaces, if they exist.
     If MERGEfilespaces=Yes is specified, Dates=Relative is not allowed.

These features are available from both the command line and the Web client.
The command line syntax for the existing export functions has not changed in
TSM Version 5.  The corrected syntax to export directly to another server
is:

  EXPort Admin  [admin_name]
                TOServer=server_name
                [PREVIEWImport=No|Yes]
                [Replacedefs=No|Yes]

  EXPort Policy [domain_name]
                TOServer=server_name
                [PREVIEWImport=No|Yes]
                [Replacedefs=No|Yes]

  EXPort Server [FILEData=None|Al|ARchive|Backup|BACKUPActive|ALLActive|
                          SPacemanaged]
                [FROMDate=date [FROMTime=time]]
                TOServer=server_name
                [PREVIEWImport=No|Yes]
                [MERGEfilespaces=No|Yes]
                [Replacedefs=No|Yes]

  EXPort Node   [node_name]
                [FILESpace=file_space_name]
                [FSID=file_space_ID]
                [UNIFILESpace=file_space_name]
                [Domains=domain_name]
                [FILEData=None|Al|ARchive|Backup|BACKUPActive|ALLActive|
                          SPacemanaged]
                [FROMDate=date [FROMTime=time]]
                TOServer=server_name
                [PREVIEWImport=No|Yes]
                [MERGEfilespaces=No|Yes]
                [Replacedefs=No|Yes]


-----Original Message-----
From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:Wanda.Prather AT JHUAPL DOT EDU]
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 8:37 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Migration from AIX to Solaris


Al,

As far as anything I have ever read here and in the manuals, moving the DB
across OS's is NOT supported.
What you describe will work going from AIX to AIX, but if it works going
from AIX to Solaris, it's an unsupported accident.

The other issue is the data that exists on tape.  If you were able to NFS
mount the DB to Solaris and use it, then what happens when you try to do a
RESTORE?   You are using a TSM-on-Solaris tape driver to read data that was
written with TSM-on-AIX tape drivers.  I don't know if that is feasible and
again, it isn't supported if a problem does occur.

I've heard that somewhere in 5.2 or higher Tivoli is planning something to
help moving a server across platforms, but we aren't there yet.