That's a clever little trick Wanda, i'm going to remember this one, thanks.
:-)

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Prather, Wanda <Wanda.Prather AT icfi DOT 
com>wrote:

>
> When there is no archiving activity on the client machine, on the TSM
> server do:
> rename the ...abcd filespaces to ...abcnew
> rename the ...abc1 filespaces back to ....abcd  (what they should have
> been called originally)
> export the ....abcd filespaces to tape
> rename the ...abcnew filespaces back to abcd
> You now have some data in the filespaces on the TSM server by the correct
> filespace names.
> You also have some data exported to tape with the correct filespace names.
> import the data from tape, this time specify MERGEFILESPACES=YES
>
> That should get everything back to where you expect it to be.
>
>