This was my thought as well except I would backup the existing devconfigs,volhists and database and restore over the production server. Since we don't have a spare box right now.
I am concerned however that db2 might keep the backup history internally and have no record of it once its been deleted. I did see somewhere that I could extract the backup file itself from the tape to a filesystem and restore from THAT but that leads to the question of how to get a good snapshot off all the backups onto tape and offsite that isn't dependent on the original storage pool it was copied from. Mark D. Rodriguez wrote:
John, I think you might have been able to recover from your situation. Now this is just theory since I have not ever had a chance to try this in a test environment. If you were still within the window of the following conditions: you had a valid TSM DB backup and your reuse delay for the involved tapes ( I would use the copypool tapes) has not past. You could then restore your server on to a separate instance from production. You would then have to configure enough hardware to that server so that you could access the tapes, If you are using copypool tapes then mark all the primary tapes as destroyed. Now establish server to server communications between the two TSM servers. Then you could export the node data back to the production machine. Obviously this is a high level list of what needs to be done. There are quite a few details that I have left out but I just wanted to get the concept across.
