I would look into the option of renting a library or buying a refurbished
on.

I have no idea what kind of capacity we are talking about but you could also
migrate to disk (maybe with dedupe) and then migrate back to tape if you
happen to have (or be able to rent/borrow) the disk capacity you need.

As the others mention, if you can't attach some storage space it's not
possible.
The migration doesn require the full amount twice if you are able to cleanup
after every migration and do it node for node but 5 slots is not much in any
case.

Reclaims running ok?

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Daniel Sparrman <daniel.sparrman AT exist DOT 
se>wrote:

> If you dont have space in your library, none of the options will work. Both
> require you to export/import data, which in turn requires space for the new
> TSM server in your library.
>
> No way of making space? Perhaps some old data that you can check out of
> your library and have outside the library? A copypool you can remove?
>
> If there's no way of making space in the library, it's going to be a hard
> thing migrating your TSM server from the Windows box to the Linux box, all
> available options require that you do a export/import since moving the
> database from Windows to Linux isnt supported.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Daniel
>
>
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> Ärende: [ADSM-L] Migrate TSM server ( Win to Linux)
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> The Library we have does support partitioning,but it is packed to capacity
> with ability to accommodate  just 5 more tapes.So i do'nt think a secondary
> library  for the Linux server will help.
>
> So Daniel as you were saying i will :
> 1. Setup Library Manager /client between by New & old TSm servers
>
> 2.Import TSM database/policies/schedules  info from old TSM server to New
> TSm server
>
> 3.Switch Library Manager to New TSM sever
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