Morning all TSMers

Running TSM 5.1.6.2 on a Solaris server. Attached to 1*3494 library with
two*3590H1A drives.

I have a possible problem here. One of the sys admins for the Windows 2000
servers has informed me that they are going to need to replace an entire
Windows 2000 server due to severe hardware issues that they have been
experiencing. No amount of support has fixed the problem and hence the
drastic move. The server has got some 820,000 files on it amounting to
approximately 450GB.

Here is what we want to do. Configure a new server and copy the data across
in such a way that it doesn't look like it's changed. The new server will
have the exact same Node name, file system layout etc. I don't really want
to be faced with backing up the entire server all over again as we are
getting low on both tape space in the library and database space. This was
not something I had foreseen.

>From what I have been told, early tests have not been promising and TSM
still thinks files have changed even if the last change date/time etc has
not altered. Does anyone have any experience with this or any advice they
can give that may help us avoid a long backup that will hog system
resources?

Many thanks in advance

Farren Minns
Solaris System Admin / Oracle DBA
IT - Hosting Services
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd


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