I'm about to restore a tsm database from one physical site to another. Now on the source/current site the tsm and database log volumes are on AIX raw logical volumes/lv's/non-fs. Now I want to restore this database to the target tsm server at the target site. I assume that all I have to do is create the logical volumes without a filesystem of equal or more size on the target system's disk. Then just type in the restore command as if I do when there file volumes? When I issue the "dsmserv format" command before the restore to initialize the volumes I usually type in a path of the file of the database and log volumes. I'm assuming all I have to do is replace those filenames with: "/dev/rlvname" for the database and log?. Is this a correct assumption?. Does anyone have any commands/docs on restoring a tsm database when it's on raw logical volumes? I can't find docs anywhere for that situation. Also if I decided I wanted the volumes to be files on mounted filesystems instead of rlvs, I'm assuming I just specify the volume destination as the mounted filesystem, during the actual database restore?.
Thanks in advance.. --Justin Richard Bleistein