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[ADSM-L] I could scream!

2013-06-18 11:51:55
Subject: [ADSM-L] I could scream!
From: "Dury, John C." <JDury AT DUQLIGHT DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:45:57 -0400
Way back when we had 1 TSM server at v5.x, we asked IBM several times if there 
was a way to migrate a TSM server to a different platform (AIX --> Linux) and 
they said "no".  So we came up with a strategy to install a 2nd TSM server 
(Linux) at our alternate site and then have all local clients backup to it and 
then replicate to the main TSM server at our primary site (AIX). All local 
clients at primary site will do the same, backup to AIX server and then 
replicate to Linux server.  Once both servers have full copies of each other's 
data, we will change all replicated nodes on the linux server to regular nodes 
and change all remote nodes to then backup to the linux server. Afterwards the 
AIX server would be phased out and a new Linux server would be created and the 
whole process reversed.
Basically the goal was to get rid of the TSM AIX server and move to linux only 
since AIX hardware is much more expensive. So now with version 6.3.4, there is 
a way to migrate from an AIX 5.x server to a Linux x86_64 server which would 
have solved our problems. . Where was this years ago? Of course now we have 2 
v6 servers and I am in the middle of the process described above.  Being able 
to move from AIX 5.x to Linux 6.3.4 would have been the solution we were 
looking for but now it's too late.
Sorry for my rant but this would have saved me a year's worth of work, at least.

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