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Re: merging two servers (export server)

2001-04-24 15:56:46
Subject: Re: merging two servers (export server)
From: "Prather, Wanda" <Wanda.Prather AT JHUAPL DOT EDU>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:57:25 -0400
No.  
Each TSM server has it's own data base.
There is no way to merge two TSM data bases.

What you would have to do is to EXPORT each of the clients from server A,
then IMPORT them individually into server B.

What a lot of people do, is just point the clients from server A to server
B, and let them take new, full backups to server B, essentially starting
them over.  Then they only do the EXPORT/IMPORT for any clients where it's
important to retain the old data, or archived data, as the EXPORT/IMPORT
process is relatively slow.  

You can of course, disconnect the library from server A, and reconnect/use
it on server B.

And another thing you can do (at least on a UNIX server, don't know about
Windows) , is MOVE server A to the same host as server B, and run both
instances of the TSM server on the same host.   There is not a lot of
benefit to doing that, but it would give you some extra time to work on
merging the two systems via EXPORT/IMPORT, if you need to get rid of server
A quickly.

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The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
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wanda_prather AT jhuapl DOT edu

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