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Moving the Tivoli Storage Manager Server

There are two ways to move a Tivoli Storage Manager server to a new machine that is running the same operating system:

The prerequisites for the backup and restore method are:

In the following example, the Tivoli Storage Manager server on machine A is moved to machine B.

    On machine A:

  1. Migrate all disk storage pool data to sequential media. See Migration for Disk Storage Pools for details.
  2. Perform a full database backup to sequential media.
    backup db devclass=8mm type=full 
    
  3. Copy the volume history file and the device configuration file.

    On machine B:

  4. Install Tivoli Storage Manager.
  5. Copy the volume history file and device configuration file to the new server.
  6. Restore the database:
    dsmserv restore db devclass=8mm volumenames=vol001,vol002,vol002
    


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