TSM is not designed to do this and there is no documentation on recovering
data without the appropriate database. This is why the manuals stress the
importance of protecting the database.
That said, there are binaries out there and have seen them on sourceforge
or google code that can dump the contents of a ADSM/TSM tape. I never
tried it myself and would definitely take some time to figure out.
There are also some archiving/recovery companies that are able to read TSM
tapes for indexing and restoring using their proprietary software.
Regards,
Shawn
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[ADSM-L] how to restore files from TSM backup tapes w/o TSM db
Hi all,
We had a monthly backup job in our TSM system and the data must be
kept forever without purging the TSM database. Recently, we found that we
couldn't restore some users' database in 2010. During the troubleshooting
process, we further found that some users' backup records for 2008, 2009,
2010 were missing in TSM database. We reported the case to IBM and they
said that the data could not be restored without a health TSM database.
We have all monthly backup tapes on-hand. Would you all kindly advise me
how to restore the files in the monthly backup tapes without using the TSM
database?
Thanks a lot.
Regards,
KK
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