That's exactly what I am expecting too. I assume that you can have a
library SCSI attached as opposed to LAN (as I have). But in my case SCSI
target IDs etc do not matter as I only point to an alias defined in the
ibmatl.conf file. I also will have to change the drives from
/dev/rmt/0stc,1stc to 2 and 3stc, but apart from that everything else will
be just as it was. I'm even bringing the new server up the with the same
name and IP address as the old one.

>From the testing I have done so far I know I can restore the dB so
communication with the drives is OK, and I tested a few mtlib commands and
they worked too, so all should be OK... fingers crossed :-)

As it stands the old server will still be there should I need to go back to
it after a couple of days. I realise that this safety net will only be
available for a few days but I should find out pretty quick if there are
problems contacting the lib/drives etc.

Many thanks again to everyone who has helped me with this and by all means
if I am still missing something and if there really is a need to
remove/redefine the drives,lib paths etc then I'd still be very interested
to hear it.

All the best

Farren Minns
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Farren Minns wrote:
> I may be missing something here of course.

I also don't see a need for deleting and redefining the paths, drives
and libraries. As I said, I connected our library from the old (AIX5.1)
to the new server (AIX5.3). Although the AIX devices changed from
rmt1-rmt6 to rmt0-rmt5, and although I renamed the TSM drives from
DRIVE1-DRIVE6 to DRIVE0-DRIVE5, as soon as I restored the database on
the new server, TSM was running without problems. There were no tapes
missing and all backups and restores were running as if nothing happened.

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Regards,

Dirk Kastens
Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center)
Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany
Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470



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