Hello Bill,

  as long as you reuse the same driveletters, you are fine. You can also use
the Windows mirroring and remain online with TSM. Did this more than once and 
had no problems at all.

--
Michael Prix

On Mon, 2018-03-12 at 09:24 -0400, Bill Boyer wrote:
> I have a small-ish TSM 8.1.2 with a single db volume. 250GB with only 99GB
> used. It's on a V7000 that's being returned off lease. I have another V7000
> to use. Is it possible to:
>
>
>
> 1.    Allocate another 250GB drive on the new V7000
> 2.    Stop TSM and make sure DB2 instance stops
> 3.    Copy the entire contents of the DBVOL to the new V7000
> 4.    Change the disk volumes so that the new V7000 is the same drive
> letter.
> 5.    Bring up TSM.
>
>
>
> I can move the active log and archive log easily enough but I would really
> like to move the DB without having to od the whole removed and restore db.
>
>
>
> I had also though about using Windows mirrored volumes.
>
>
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions?
>
>
>
> TIA,
>
> Bill