Hello I agree with you. Its what i did but not on 6.3 for the
moment,to buggy! Saluti Maurizio

2011/11/17, Steven Harris <steve AT stevenharris DOT info>:
> You have to move off TSM 5 sooner or later.  Any reasonably sized TSM
> installation takes too long to practically convert in place so you are
> forced to install TSM 6 on a new server, start new backups and then
> export/import the old data.  This is an ideal time to change platform in
> the process.
>
> Other than that take a look at www.butterflysoftware.com
>
> Regards
>
> Steve
>
> Steven Harris
> TSM Admin, Canberra Australia
>
>
>
> On 17/11/2011 8:43 AM, Hans Christian Riksheim wrote:
>> I am not of any help here but you say you are moving to Linux because
>> it is cheaper.
>>
>> Our Power servers running TSM accounts for less than 3% of the yearly
>> total cost for our backup infrastructure. Then we include licenses and
>> man hours in addition to hardware and data center costs(floor space,
>> power and cooling).
>>
>> Cutting off a little of those 3% is not an option for us if it means
>> moving away from a rock solid platform. Even if Linux on Dell was
>> handed to us free of charge we would stay on Power. But YMMV.
>>
>> Anyone else done the same calculation and found out what the cost of
>> the physical servers amount to compared to total cost for the TSM
>> infrastructure? Maybe you should.
>>
>> Hans Chr.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Dury, John C.<JDury AT duqlight DOT com>  
>> wrote:
>>> Our current environment looks like this:
>>> We have a production TSM server that all of our clients backup to
>>> throughout the day. This server has 2 SL500 tape libraries attached via
>>> fiber. One is local and the other at a remote site which is connected by
>>> dark fiber. The backup data is sent to the remote SL500 library several
>>> times a day in an effort to keep them in sync.  The strategy is to bring
>>> up the TSM DR server at the remote site and have it do backups and
>>> recovers from the SL500 at that site in case of a DR scenario.
>>>
>>> I've done a lot of reading in the past and some just recently on the
>>> possible ways to migrate from an AIX TSM server to a Linux TSM server. I
>>> understand that in earlier versions (we are currently at 5.5.5.2) of the
>>> TSM server it allowed you to backup the DB on one platform (AIX for
>>> instance) and restore on another platform (Linux for instance) and if you
>>> were keeping the same library, it would just work but apparently that was
>>> removed by IBM in the TSM server code to presumably prevent customers
>>> from moving to less expensive hardware. (Gee, thanks IBM!<sigh>).
>>> I posted several years ago about any possible ways to migrate the TSM
>>> Server from AIX to Linux.
>>> The feasible solutions were as follows:
>>>
>>> 1.       Build new linux server with access to same tape library and then
>>> export nodes from one server to the other and then change each node as
>>> it's exported, to backup to the new TSM Server instead.  Then the old
>>> data in the old server can be purged. A lengthy and time consuming
>>> process depending on the amount of data in your tape library.
>>>
>>> 2.       Build a new TSM linux server and point all TSM clients to it but
>>> keep the old TSM server around in case of restores for a specified period
>>> of time until it can be removed.
>>>
>>> There may have been more options but those seemed the most reasonable
>>> given our environment. Our biggest problem with scenario 1 above is
>>> exporting the data that lives on the remote SL500 tape library would take
>>> much longer as the connection to that tape library is slower than the
>>> local library.  I can probably get some of our SLAs adjusted to not have
>>> to export all data and only the active data but that remains to be seen.
>>>
>>> My question. Has any of this changed with v6 TSM or has anyone come up
>>> with a way to do this in a less painful and time consuming way? Hacking
>>> the DB so the other platform code doesn't block restoring an AIX TSM DB
>>> on a Linux box? Anything?
>>>
>>> Thanks again and sorry to revisit all of this again. Just hoping
>>> something has changed in the last few years.
>>> John
>>>
>


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