I found this pretty quickly in the Admin Guide.

Chapter 24 "Protecting and Recovering Your Server"

Verse "Database and Recovery Log Protection: An Overview"

"The database contains information about the client data in your storage
pools. The recovery log contains records of changes to the database. If
you lose the recovery log, you lose the changes that have been made since
the last database backup. If you lose the database, you lose all your
client data."

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com

The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
The command line is your friend.
"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 2005-02-18
11:47:59:

> "The only way to read client data from a tape is to set-up another TSM
> server, and restore the database from your current TSM server onto it.
> You would then be able to access the data on the tape, it cannot be done
> without TSM."
> I have heard this several times.
> Where in the IBM TSM documentation
> does it specifically state this?
> I need to quote chapter and verse to an auditor.
>
> Frank McClean
> frank_mcclean AT calpers.ca DOT gov