For sake of shortness I have described our problem not very exactly. I should 
have
mentioned that we have first tried db backup/restore. Unfortunately restore db 
failed
several times. We have been told by IBM support that the reason for the failure 
is an
inconsistency in the database and that audit db is required.
Nobody can tell us how long an audit would last and our experiences with audit 
db in
the past are not very promising ...
Right now the load db failed after 4 days with an "insufficient space message".
Actually this was our third attempt to load the db. The loads before ended up 
also
with "insufficient space messages. I doubt that insufficient space is the 
reason for
the failure, we have provided 90 GB for loading. The original size of the db is 
69 GB.
In fact I suppose that the assumed inconsistency of the db causes the problems.

Originally we provided backup/restore db as fallback in case of problems with 
the
export volume group approach. Now it looks like we have to forgo the fallback. 
At
least it is encouraging that others have done a successfull server movement 
before.

Thank you all for your hints,
Werner

Richard Sims wrote:

> >So we can safely exclude dump/load db as a way to move an large adsm server.
>
> One should use a database backup and restore to do this, rather than
> dump-load, as the latter are salvage utilities.  Or...
>
> >BTW: Does anyone have an idea how to move an production server from one 
> >machine to
> >another? The db is resided on SSA disks. So, in theoretically, we can attach 
> >the
> >SSA loop to the new machine, issue an import volume group and that's it. Has
> >anybody done this before?
>
> Yes; it has been discussed many times on the List - see the archives.  You can
> do this if the source and destination systems are AIX, at least.
>
>    Richard Sims, BU

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