Your plan sounds good.  You didn't say what OS you were running.  We run
AIX, and rather than export the DB and import it on the new server, we just
export the volume groups on the old server, move them to the new server
(recable), and them import the volume groups on the new server.  Make sure
you know what you're doing if you do this, and no matter what you do, make
sure you have good backups before you start.

At 04:19 PM 6/12/2002 -0500, Marc D. Taylor wrote:

Hello Again,

Since we are getting a new library we are also getting new server hardware
and going to TSM 4.2.1 (5 will be later).  Therefore, we have a 2 way
upgrade (old software to new software, old server to new server).

I gave TSM support a call and asked what their recommended procedure was
and I found out that they really don't have any, but the tech support guy
who responded gave me a procedure that he says has worked for others.

In our case, we need to upgrade the OS on the old server (still at 4.2.1)
to 4.3.3. Do an update install of TSM on top of what we have now.  Export
the database after it has been transformed by the update/install to tape.

Take the export tape and import it into the new server (along with the old
tape libraries).  Then migrate the data from the old library to the new
library.

Is this what others have done?  I have seen snippets of other things being
done,  but usually it appears that server hardware remained the same.

TIA for all of your comments.

Marc

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