How 'bout:

1. Define a manual library on the test system and a device class pointing to
the manual library.
2. BACKUP DEVCONFIG on the test system and HALT TSM.
3. DSMSERV RESTORE DB DEVCLASS=<device class from #1> VOLUMENAMES=<volser>
COMMIT=YES

Make sure you have the same or more Database volume space on the test system
as you do in production. I would also recommend defining a small log space
for the restore. The first thing done is to format the log space. Why wait
for 1G to format each time when you could define up a small log to start
with.

Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Stapleton, Mark
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 12:17 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Possible to restore db w/ no library?


A quick and dirty solution: attach your single tape drive to your
production TSM system and define it with its own library/device
class/drive/path definitions. Do a database backup.

Now attach this drive to your test TSM server. You should now be able to
use the single drive as a manual library for your restore.

From: Theresa Sarver [mailto:tsarver.IFMC AT SDPS DOT ORG]
> I'm trying to restore one of our Tivolli environents onto a test
system,
> and have hit a wall - that I don't think there is a way around. ???
In
> short, is it possible to restore a Tivoli database with just a drive
and
> NO library?

<major snippage>

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Mark Stapleton (mark.stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
Berbee Information Networks
Office 262.521.5627