It will likely depend on the utilities (and perhaps the care)
with which the data is copied from the old to the new. If they
are able to preserve things like file creation time, ownership,
permissions, etc., then you might be able to do this. We do
similar work when external drives move from one system to
another.

If, however, ADSM sees any difference between the files as they
appeared on the old system and the files as they appear on the
new system, they will be backed up again.

If you have a chance to coordinate with the people doing the data
copy, you may be able to test different scenarios before you do
the actual change.

 -- Tom

On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Bob Barden wrote:

>We are doing a hardware upgrade for one of our ADSM clients. (very large
>amount of client data)
> Our Network people plan on copying the data from all the drives on the old
>machine to the new machine using their utilities.
>
>My question is can we eliminate the First Full backup of this new client by
>first Renaming the Node and then
>Renaming the  Filespaces???
>
>
>Thanks in advance for your cooperation......
>