While I have no empirical data to back me up on this, I would think that you
would get a full backup of the SYS volume but incrementals for the data on your
EMC.

Kind of off topic but have you thought of migrating from IPX to IP?

David Browne wrote:

>  Tonight we are doing a migration on a Novell server (node nameLOUDAT4) to
> new OS and new hardware.  The migration will be occurring as follows.
> The current Novell server (LOUDAT4) is SCSI connected to an EMC symmetrix
> and that is where its disk resides.  It is NetWare 4.11.
> The destination will be new server hardware running NetWare 5.1.  This
> server is fibre connected to the EMC symmetrix.  It will be zoned so that
> it can see the disk that is currently out there, and assume ownership of
> it.
>
> We will be removing NDS from the original server and getting it out of the
> Tree.
> We will then install NDS on the new hardware, and this server will assume
> the same name and internal IPX addresses of the original server.  The main
> differences here is that it will be new hardware and a new OS (NetWare
> 5.1).  We will have a new volume object ID in NDS, but I don't believe that
> TSM reference this.  Aside from that, the server name, volume name, and IPX
> addresses will remain the same.  We plan to bring over the option files
> from the original box to the new box.
>
> It currently has TSM 4.1.3.0 client code installed.
>
> My question is, will TSM do a full backup after this type of harware change
> or  will he do a normal incremental?

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Jim Kirkman
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UNC-Chapel Hill
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