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Hi,
- OS: AIX 6.1
- mksysb of the operaring system exists
- no backup of TSM binaries, DB2 instance, etc.
- data on disk storage pool can be ignored. tape volumes contain main
backups
- .dbv backup of TSM database exists.

Can this backup be restored to a newly installed TSM server?

Thank you

Hi Mehdi,

Do you have a current volume history file (volhist.dat) ? This file is absolutely required in order to restore the database from a backup.

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De: Mehdi Salehi
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Objet: [ADSM-L] recovering a crashed TSM server
Envoyé: 26 déc. 2011 18:54

Hi,
- OS: AIX 6.1
- mksysb of the operaring system exists
- no backup of TSM binaries, DB2 instance, etc.
- data on disk storage pool can be ignored. tape volumes contain main
backups
- .dbv backup of TSM database exists.

Can this backup be restored to a newly installed TSM server?

Thank you


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Best regards / Cordialement / مع تحياتي
Erwann SIMON

Hi,

If the version was 5.x, I could say absolutely yes. You should install a new TSM server with same version the old one. You should define old server environment. DB volumes, devices, etc. After this you can restore from backup by specifiing db backup volumes at restore db command. I did it with v5.5.

Unfortunatelly, I don't have any experience with v6.x. It should be the same way.

Good luck,
Alper

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Subject: [ADSM-L] recovering a crashed TSM server

Hi,
- OS: AIX 6.1
- mksysb of the operaring system exists
- no backup of TSM binaries, DB2 instance, etc.
- data on disk storage pool can be ignored. tape volumes contain main backups
- .dbv backup of TSM database exists.

Can this backup be restored to a newly installed TSM server?

Thank you

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You can alway's recover as long as you have the database backup.
For a version 5 recovery it's as easy as;

* create a newly installed TSM instance.
* create a fileclass device class that points to the same directory you
will place your .dbv backup file in.
* do a database backup to this fileclass
* save device / volhist files.
* halt tsm
* copy your .dbv backup file to your new fileclass dir.
* edit history files to point to your backup file.
* run dsmserv restoredb

For a version 6 recovery it's little bit more tricky with things like ;

* use *exactly* the same server software version
* create an instance like before with the fileclass
* do a db backup
* device/volhist backup
* halt tsm
* then drop the TSM database and loadformat instance.
* dsmserv restoredb
* use correct instance usernames / environment variables

I think that's about it....did I forget something guy's, don't have much
time today but still want to help out!

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Mehdi Salehi <ezzobad < at > gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,
- OS: AIX 6.1
- mksysb of the operaring system exists
- no backup of TSM binaries, DB2 instance, etc.
- data on disk storage pool can be ignored. tape volumes contain main
backups
- .dbv backup of TSM database exists.

Can this backup be restored to a newly installed TSM server?

Thank you