I have a user running TSM 5.4 on a single Windows XP server. This user
experienced a server crash but after a week of trying was unable to get
TSM running again with the existing database. Error messages indicated
that the database experienced corruption, and after getting those errors
TSM would not restart.  So, in order to get backups done, he recreated
the nodes and began what amounted to a new backup system with a fresh
database.

 

He still has a copy of the old database. What's the likelihood, if that
database can be repaired, of merging the contents into the existing
production database? I can't see how this could be done, but am trying
to cover all possibilities. The server name is the same, the IP address
is the same and the tape library is the same, and have the same names.