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[ADSM-L] move nodes from one server to a different server via export

2012-10-04 11:17:57
Subject: [ADSM-L] move nodes from one server to a different server via export
From: "Dury, John C." <JDury AT DUQLIGHT DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 10:50:45 -0400
Please ignore my previous post about trying to def a target server to source 
server and it failing. It looks like it works even though I still can't ping 
the target server from the source server. The replication works correctly 
though.

A brief description of our environment. We have 2 datacenters. Let's call them 
Site A and site B. Both sites have TSM nodes which are all now currently 
backing up to the TSM server at site A.

We would like to have a tsm server at both sites and have the clients at each 
respective site backup to their local site, and then replicate that data to the 
other site.

I was hoping to be able to replicate node data from site A to site B and then 
convert that node to a regular node so the node at that site could then backup 
to site B.

It doesn't look like there is any way to do that so the next choice is to 
export the node from server A to server B and then change the node so it backs 
up to server B instead of server A. Once that is done, I can enable replication 
between sites for that node so it will replicate from site B to site A and thus 
we have a DR solution for all of our nodes. Because this is tremendous amount 
of data I'd like to only have to send the data once from site A to site B via 
the export, and then use replication to replicate daily changes from site B 
back to site A which should be minimal data changes since the node data already 
exists at site A.
Is this possible?
I have both servers defined to each other and when I try to export a node's 
data from site A to site B I get:
ANR0561E EXPORT NODE: Process aborted - sign on to server,<site B>  failed. 
(SESSION: 118112, PROCESS: 318)
Both servers have my admin id defined with the same password and both servers 
have the same password (although I don't think that matters).
Site B was defined to site A via:
def server siteB pass=server hladdress=*.*.*.* lladdress=1500
I also tried the other syntax:
Def server siteB serverpass=password hladdress=*.*.*.* lladdress=1500
I also tried defining a node on siteB with the name of the server at siteA and 
type=server
Force sync also didn't help.
No matter what, I get the "sign on to server failed" message.
Is it me, is "def server" extremely buggy?!

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