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Re: Recovering SP node to Standalone RS6000

2002-05-02 12:43:34
Subject: Re: Recovering SP node to Standalone RS6000
From: Dan Foster <dsf AT GBLX DOT NET>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 16:43:43 +0000
Hot Diggety! Jolley, Bill was rumored to have written:
> I have a TSM server located on an IBM SP Node (winterhawk) and would like to
> recover to a standalone RS/6000 (H80). Do anyone have/know of a procedure or
> have suggestions?

Offhand, best bet is probably to do a mksysb backup (making sure that
device drivers for both boxes exists, among other key gotchas) and then
a mksysb install from that image. You can't just do a normal file backup
and then restore because there are a bunch of system specific stuff such
as the ODM entries, installed filesets, etc. Even more critical to get
it right when SP and non-SP is concerned.

I haven't personally done that with our SP and non-SP nodes as you
describe, so that's about all I can suggest from what I've heard from
others who has done similar things in the past.

It's usually done as a way to recover from a total SP node system failure,
rather than migrating to or from the SP, though.

-Dan Foster
IP Systems Engineering (IPSE)
IP Systems Engineering (IPSE)
Global Crossing Telecommunications