Allen S. Rout schrieb: >>The decission was to move away from AIX, because we have no sysadmin >>knowledge with AIX and the machine grew more and more unmanaged. > > I can sympathize. Though you may have, by this message, incurred a small > avalanche of consulting aid offers. :)
Thanks anyway. Your webpage is very instructive. >>The problem that I see now is, that we have only one library. We want to >>reuse the library that is now running with the AIX machine on the Linux >>machine. I don't have an old and a new library to copy the data between the >>old and new server. And I suppose that connecting the library as a shared >>library virtually two both servers and then copiing the data will not help, >>since that library is still physically only connected to one server and this >>server will write and read in its own format, correct? > > I don't recall how your library was attached, or even what it was; but there's > no reason not to hook up several servers of divergent architectures to one > library. If it's a SAN library, it may be nearly trivial. And then you could > do _just_ that: get both servers using the same set of drives, and gradually > move load from one to the other, as your copy behavior progresses. It is a SCSI-Library with AIT Drives directly attached to a 43p with AIX. What I was thinking of, was doing a server to server connection and defining the library in the new server as SHARED. So I have a IP connection from new_server to old_server and a SCSI connection from old_server to library. -- ============================================================================ Christoph Martin, EDV der Verwaltung, Uni-Mainz, Germany Internet-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telefon: +49-6131-3926337