Hi IF you are running AIX ver 4.3 and above and also using SSA disks, have you ever tried the option of export and importvg within AIX. This will solve all your problems as it will take half the time to rebuild your server.
Thks Sean AIX and TSM Admin EDS (South Africa) -----Original Message----- From: Justin Bleistein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 11:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Database question The "dsmserv upgrade" method is an interesting way. I would like to hear other people's input into that. But how we did it when we had to move from one H80 to another is we backed the database up to tape. Turned off H80 1 and then powered up H80 2 and went through a dr procedure on that system basically. We created the logical volume, the file system, then ran a dsmserv format command for the log and database then we simply defined our devconfig and dsmserv.opt file after we installed the TSM server software of course and restored and we were up in no time. Of course this was to and from the same version with the exception of a maintenance level or two. Just an idea on how we did it and I didn't find it very difficult or any gotchas (to the same version) of course. You may need to use the upgrade command going from one version to another. I'm not really sure I would think so. Thanks!. --Justin Richard Bleistein Unix Systems Administrator (Sungard eSourcing) Desk: (856) 866 - 4017 Cell: (856) 912 - 0861 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeff G Kloek <Jeff.Kloek@IPAPE To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] R.COM> cc: Sent by: "ADSM: Subject: Database question Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> 01/14/2003 04:47 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" Part of our upcoming move includes moving from TSM 4.2.1.9 on AIX 4.3.3 on RS6000 S7A to TSM 5.1.5.4 on P670 on AIX 5.2. I've set up an instance of TSM at that level on the P670. Now I'm trying to fathom the best way to actually move the database over. I'm going to be dropping all the disk and tape connections from the S7A and connecting them to the P670. I'll have time to get all the devices defined and paths defined, so that with the exception of the path statements, the storage pools, libraries tape drives, log directories, db directories and files will all be configured the same as before. My question is this: If I did all the above, could I simply do a "dsmserv upgradedb" and let it fly? I'm sure this isn't supported, so I'm just wondering aloud. Thanks!!
