Andy,
I admit that I have never actually tried to do this. The furthest I got
was talking to TSM Support and Development, a couple of years ago, and they
indicated that this was not supported. I was told at that time that
different platforms write tapes differently. Hearing that it was not
supported, I was not willing to bet the enterprise on an unsupported
process, even if it appeared to work. I try to avoid those kind of time bombs.
IBM: If this could actually work for certain platform migrations, it would
be useful to the user community to actually support something like
this. I'm sure there are many installations out there that have reason to
change OS platforms over the years, and would want to do so without
exporting/importing ALL of their data.
..Paul
At 06:01 PM 3/11/2009, Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT wrote:
Not doubting the power of the Holiday Inn Express, but in the past I had a
Windows LAN-free client whose tapes were reclaimed by an AIX TSM server,
which would leave me to conclude that AIX somehow managed to read the
tapes, even though they were written with a crayon. Also AIX did make
some off-site copies of these LAN-free tapes.
Andy Huebner
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Paul Zarnowski
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 4:49 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.1 - can I do a X server platform database restore?
Tapes are written in different formats on different platforms, so the
answer to your question is "no". You would have to export all of the data
from Windows and import to AIX, not just the database.
No, I'm not from development, but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last
night!
..Paul
At 05:41 PM 3/11/2009, Joerg Pohlmann wrote:
>Could someone from development please comment - since the database for TSM
>6.1 is DB2, can I move from a TSM server on for example, Windows to a TSM
>server on for example, AIX by restoring the database and then updating any
>tape device names in the path definitions?
>
>Joerg Pohlmann
>250-245-9863
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