Joerg (and all),

    I don't see a response from TSM development in this chain so I'm not
sure if it had been responded to or not...  If it had and I missed it - I
apologize for any duplication or rehashing of previously covered
information...

     With TSM V6.1, some of the challenges associated with restoring a
server database across platforms have been eliminated or mitigated.  That
being said, there are still some embedded data structures that TSM stores
that may have architecture, platform, or endianess issues if a database was
restored to a different architecture and operating system then it was
originally running on...  From the discussion in the responses to this
post, it is correct that much of the concern or issue with this is the
device support and in particular the representation of device specific
attributes such as positioning information of data on volumes.

Thanks,
Colin

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Colin Dawson
TSM Server Development
colind AT us.ibm DOT com



  From:       Don France <DFrance-TSM AT ATT DOT NET>

  To:         ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU

  Date:       04/29/2009 08:17 PM

  Subject:    Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.1 - can I do a X server platform database 
restore?







Clearly, this is not exactly the case;  LAN-free data is written to tape in
a format that *any* hosting TSM server can read/restore/migrate/etc.  It's
the DATABASE data (and metadata) that is stored in formats consistent with
the hosting TSM server's OS-platform --- one issue has been the
bigindian-littleindian issue, mostly (though there are some other issues,
too -- such as LBA's and other such OS-filesystem-dependent things).  There
were rumors that some x86-based OS's might be able to handle "some" items
in a x-platform kinda way, but it's not been reported the degree of
success.

-Don


 -------------- Original message from Paul Zarnowski <psz1 AT CORNELL DOT EDU>:
--------------


> 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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