Bill, You can do it on a live system (while Spectrum Protect and DB2 are running) using Windows mirrored volumes (or LVM on *nix system) You will want to reboot the system after reclaiming old V7000 storage
The process that you described will work too, no need to remove/restore db Mike G On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 9:24 AM, Bill Boyer <bjdbo...@comcast.net> 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 > > -- Mikhail Golbin bus (908)635-5705 cell (908)210-3393 RMD IT Client Services
