Tony,

You must change the NODENAME in the DSM.OPT file to
actually connect to the server as the original node
that ran the backup.

Thanks,

Del

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Del Hoobler
IBM Corporation
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> Can someone describe the exact procedure to restore a database backup
from
> one server to another. This used to be quite straight forward with TDP
1.1.2
> but does not work according to the directions with both the GUI and the
> command line. With the GUI, setting the 'from server' parameter in the
> configurations settings would imply that the GUI will query the TSM
server
> for the backups from that server, it seems to have no affect whatsoever.
> With the command line again setting the FromSQLServer parm does nothing
but
> return an error that no backups can be found for the server name
> 'SQL Servername'\meta\0000. Also it would seem to me that you would have
to
> authenticate to TSM for both nodes, it's no apparent where you would
provide
> the password for the from server.