Not in any useful way, no. You need the database to (among other things)
determine where each file version lives in the storage hierarchy.

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 03:39:24PM +0000, Plair, Ricky wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm currently in a DR test,  and the following scenario has raised an ugly 
> question.
>
> We have a production Data Domain replicating to a DR DD.
>
> All the data is backed up to the production DD using TSM.
>
> The question is, can  we restore the TSM data at the DR location from the DD 
> if we don't have a TSM database.
>
> In other word,  if we lost the TSM database,  but had the data that was 
> backed up by a TSM server, is there any way to build a new TSM server and 
> retrieve the data.
>
> I appreciate any help.

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