Hallo.
We changed our Hardware a year ago. We asked support to help us and got a good hand-out with all the steps to make. Here is the 'cook book': 1. you must have the samt TSM-Version on the old and new server. 2. migrate all diskpools to tape 3. backup the TSM-DB on the old server maybe to a file-devclass ( better for restore ) 4. stop the old server 5. save all the config-files from the old server ( dsmserv.opt,dsmserv.dsk,devconfig.out,volhist.out,nodelock ) 6. connect the libraryies to the new server 7. install the tsm device driver on the new server all the following steps are on the new server 8. copy the config-files from step 5. to the new server, over the existing! 9. create log-files and db-files with dsmserv format 10. check the config-files! for example the devconfig.out for devclass,devices,pathes,etc. 11. restore the db from step 3. 12. change dsm.opt: nomigrrecl expinterval = disablescheds yes 13. start the tsm-server in foreground ( dsmserv ) 14. disable sessions 15. delete all paths, drives and libraries 16. define all paths, libraries and drives again you must do step 15. and 16. because of possible changed scsi-id's 17. checkin libv <library> search=yes status=scratch checklabel=barcode 18. checkin libv <library> search=yes status=private checklabel=barcode 19. create the diskpools. If you have another directory-name for the volumes, you must delete the old ones and define new ones. 20. If everything runs fine, stop the server ( halt server ), remove the options you defined in step 12 from dsm.opt and start the tsm-server as a service like you did on the old hardware THAT'S IT! Hope that helps you. Kind regards Robert Fijan -- Bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten sparen: GMX SmartSurfer! Kostenlos downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer