> I am preparing to move to a new ADSM server, and am wondering if anyone
> has some advice to make the transition easier.
>
> Our current configuration has a 3494 w/ 2x 3590B1A drives connected to an
> RS/6000 J40 running AIX 4.2.1, ADSM 3.1.2.20.  The new system will have
> the same lib. and drives, but an RS/6000 H70 running AIX 4.3.2,
> ADSM 3.1.2.40.
>
> I've been reading up about import and export... do I really have to copy
> (export) *all* of my data (nodes, admin, policies and backup/archive data)
> onto empty tapes, then copy(import) it all back again?? With almost 2.5TB
> of data stored, this is quite a daunting task.  Seems to me there must be
> an easier way, but I'm not sure what it is, and the docs I have don't seem
> to be of much help.

I don't think you will need to export and import when migrating between two
AIX systems. I think you can do something like the following:

1.Stop all client sessions.
2.Force all disk storage pool contents to tape.
3.Backup the ADSM database to tape.
4.Allocate and format files for the ADSM database, recovery log, and disk
storage pools on the new system.
5.Recable the tape drives to the new system.
6.Restore the ADSM database to the new system.
7.Start ADSM on the new system.
8.On the new system, delete disk storage pool definitions from the ADSM
database and define new disk storage pools to match the files allocated in
step 4.
8.Begin client backups on the new system.