From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On 
Behalf Of Neil Bowen
>Normally, I'd Google and read up but I need some feedback pdq. Our TSM
>server is a Sun 280R with 1 x 750MHz CPU, 1GB RAM sunning Solaris 2.8
>but, to be honest, this system is underspecified and sometimes 
>can't cut
>it. The TSM is 5.2.1. The tape library is a fibre-attached Adic Scalar
>1000 with 6xLTO1 drives and 188 tapes and it mostly backs up Windows
>stuff.
> 
>The powers-that-be wish to migrate this to a Windows 2003 box using the
>same tape library - and soon. It's a political decision and not really
>up for debate at the moment. The first TSM consultants that I've
>approached have said that we cannot retain the legacy data and that if
>we install TSM onto a Windows server, all of the data will be lost
>unless we dual-access the library and retain the Solaris TSM. As the
>library is full and then some, that isn't really an option even if the
>politics wouldn't get in the way. 
> 
>My question - Is this the case?

If you don't have access to a new tape library for the new server, your
only choice is run an export/import process from the old TSM server to
the new one. This will be a disagreeably slow process.

You can connect both TSM servers to the same library, but you'll have to
have all new storage pools (and tape volumes) for the new server to use.
(This assumes that your library has adequate room and can be logically
partitioned; I don't know the Adic library line.) The export/import
function will move data off of the old server's storage pools and place
it in the new server's storage pools.

You may have to go back to management and say that the proposed
migration cannot happen unless you get adequate resources.

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Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
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