I second this suggestion ...
Google responded with 42 in about 2 seconds which is much quicker than
the 7.5 million years that Deep Thought took to compute the same answer
to the Ultimate Question.

Cheers to Google!

Have a nice day
Neil Strand
Storage Engineer - Legg Mason
Baltimore, MD.
(410) 580-7491
Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic.


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 11:57 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] How to read TSM content without TSM??

Any time you have questions about anything...........

Step #1 - GOOGLE
Step #2 - rinse-lather-repeat

http://www.backupcentral.com/content/view/179/47/



From:
Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU>
To:
ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date:
05/20/2009 06:59 AM
Subject:
Re: [ADSM-L] How to read TSM content without TSM??
Sent by:
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>



On May 20, 2009, at 12:02 AM, Norita binti Hassan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need to read a TSM tape/backup, but I want to read it without TSM.
>
> Can it be done?

The basic answer is No.
"Reading a tape" means little if you don't know what the data on it is
about.  Consider what the TSM database is for...

    Richard Sims

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