Hi William

Im sorry but you cant make TSM read data that was made with TAR and CPIO
from tape. it just cant be done. however there are 2 ways out of this for
you. first of all you can use both TAR and CPIO just to archive to your hard
drive, then you can backup or acrhive your data. But there is another way
for you to make it work with a tape, you need to use the "define
recoverymedia" command in TSM and let the TSM server know about the tape
with your TAR & CPIO data, then the TSM server knows that the tape is there
and you can eaven define it into your library. Just remember TSM can never
read the tape it self. you can only let the TSM Database know that it?s
there.

Kvedja/Regards
Petur Eythorsson
Taeknimadur/Technician
IBM Certified Specialist - AIX
Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional
Microsoft Certified System Engineer

peddi AT itn DOT is

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-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
William SO Ng
Sent: 22. agust 2002 05:12
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: TSM reads tar/cpio data tape ?


Hello TSMers,

I have a questions about TSM.  Is TSM able to read data directly from tape
that use TAR or CPIO to backup ?  What I would like to do is:  put a tape
into tape drive and the tape contain data that I use tar or cpio.  TSM will
be able to read the data and put these data into storage pool directly.  I
think it can't be done and one has to restore it to temp. directory and
backup using TSM, right ?

It is because TAR & CPIO was being used for backup before TSM but I want
those data back and put it in TSM.

Thanks & Regards
William