Hi *SMR's:

Forgive me for the length of this but I will be thankful for any responses/suggestions 
anyone may send me.

I work for a Health System that has split up.  One side owns the TSM server (a 
Netstore 3466, Ver. 3.7.3.6, Aix 4.3.2, about 70 clients, WinNt, Novell,  HP Unix, 
Aix, Linux, about 12tb) and the other side (my employer) owns the StorageTek 9740 SCSI 
library,  (with 6 clients, HP Unix and Aix, about 3 tb).  I have been doing the TSM 
Admin for both.  

My employer has told the other Health System to make arrangements to move their data 
off our library.  The one good thing is that the data on the TSM server is all short 
term data, no archives or anything like that on this server.  Data could be expired in 
about 4 weeks.  

My employer is buying me a used IBM M80 as our TSM server and with the STK9740, I'll 
have a complete system.  I'm not sure what the other side is going to do but they will 
at least have to purchase a library and connect it to the Netstore.  I have advised 
them to get a whole new system.  The old Netstore 3466 is a C00 model, I have to use 
pressure bandages on it on a daily basis to stop the bleeding.  They just have too 
much data for that box to process.

What I'm asking is for any ideas on how to use the pieces in this setup so that 
everyone has access to their old data.  Of course, the main issue is the data, but 
Exporting/Importing the other sides 12+tb seems like it would be a long drawn out 
affair. I'm not skilled enough yet to know what my alternatives are.

What I'm wondering is, is it possible to connect the STK9740 to my new TSM server and 
then perhaps connect a couple of its drives (it has 10 DLT7000's and 600 DLT4 tapes) 
to the old Netstore for a period of time?  If possible, I hope this would do two 
things for me.  One, it would allow me to just export the old server with only 
node/domain/schedule info without client data but would still allow me access to my 
old data until not needed.  Second, it would allow the other side access to a couple 
of drives with which to move their data.  

Is this feasible?  Does anyone have a different idea on how this should be done.  If 
it was you, what would you do?

Thanks for any help,

Danny.

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