Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows: Administrator's Guide


|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 back up 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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