John, Go to: http://www.ibm.com/us/
Enter this in the search box in the upper right: "Restoring SQL database to an alternate database/machine" (Include the quotes) You will find technote #1105967. Thanks, Del ---------------------------------------------------- "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 06/29/2005 08:50:47 PM: > Hi all, > > The subject says it all but we're trying to emulate what we do with our > DB2 servers on our mssql servers. Basically each night we restore a copy > of our production data on another server so that we can validate our > backups are good. We also use this database to load our warehouse. > > Does something like that exist under the TDP/MSSQL client? > > I can provide additional version information if needed but I don't think > it will be applicable to the TDP side of things. I will say that we have > two TSM servers, one running 5.2.2 on windows and the other is 5.2.4 on > AIX 5.3. I don't have the TDP client version handy but I just downloaded > it from passport advantage last week. > > Thanks, > John E. Vincent.