Hi Mike, was looking for the same thing some days ago. Found this in the V7.1 Info Center:
Converting client nodes for store operations on a target replication server: If a source replication server is unavailable, you can convert client nodes to be non-replicating nodes. Non-replicating client nodes can back up, archive, or migrate data to a target replication server. Source: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v7r1/topic/com.ibm.itsm.srv.doc/t_repl_dr_failover.html Best regards, Wolfgang On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Ryder, Michael S < michael_s.ry...@roche.com> wrote: > Hello Folks: > > I've been searching all day, but haven't been able to find an answer on my > own yet. > > Is anyone using Node Replication on TSM 7.1? > > I am tasked with coming up with some sort of disaster recovery solution for > TSM 7.1 -- we are currently running server v6.2, and I want to take this > opportunity to come up with something a little better. > > I have all the infrastructure necessary to setup a pair of TSM 7.1 servers, > and am thinking that Node Replication will satisfy most of the > requirements. > > The one thing I can't figure out is this -- say the worst happens, and the > source server (primary) is destroyed. Now I have a read-only target > server, from which I can restore my servers... but, is there a way to > convert this target server into a source server as well, so I can start > using it to backup my surviving and restored nodes? > > Part of recovering from a disaster, is being able to continually protect > data, especially of surviving and restored nodes. > > Best regards, > > Mike Ryder > RMD IT Client Services >