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Administrator's Guide
There are two ways to move a Tivoli Storage Manager server to a new machine
that is running the same operating system:
- Back up the database, and restore it on another machine on which Tivoli
Storage Manager is installed. The backup and restore method is
described in this section.
- Export the server to sequential media, and import the data to the new
machine. See Chapter 19, Exporting and Importing Data for details. The export and import method may take
longer than the backup and restore method.
The prerequisites for the backup and restore method are:
- The same operating system must be running on both machines.
- The sequential storage pool must be accessible from both machines.
You will have to move any libraries and devices from the original machine to
the new machine or they must be accessible through a SAN.
- The restore operation must be done by a Tivoli Storage Manager server at a
code level that is the same as or later than that on the machine that was
backed up.
- Only manual and SCSI library types are supported for the restore
operation.
In the following example, the Tivoli Storage Manager server on machine A is
moved to machine B.
On machine A:
- Migrate all disk storage pool data to sequential media. See Migration for Disk Storage Pools for details.
- Perform a full database backup to sequential media.
backup db devclass=8mm type=full
- Copy the volume history file and the device configuration file.
On machine B:
- Install Tivoli Storage Manager.
- Copy the volume history file and device configuration file to the new
server.
- Restore the database:
dsmserv restore db devclass=8mm volumenames=vol001,vol002,vol002
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