Restoration from Tapes

[Frederick Tybalt]

One of my customer is trying to migrate from CMOD to another ECM platform. They need to migrate content from CMOD as well as content from CMOD backup tapes. Backups are taken using TSM. Few questions on migrating the backup tapes contents.

1. How do we restore the tape content?
2. When restoring tape content will the current data in CMOD be overwritten?
3. Is restoration possible, based on backup dates or Application group or any other similar parameter?
4. How is metadata stored on backup tapes
5. Is it possible to only restore the metadata without restoring the actual data?

[Justin Derrick]

Your best bet is to use arsdoc.  Anything else is just asking for a world of hurt, unless someone has already been through the pain and suffering of having developed tools to read the CMOD-parsed and compressed data directly from TSM.

-JD.

[Frederick Tybalt]

JD, Can arsdoc be issued against the data in the backup tape directly without restoring it? If so, what parameters need to be changed in arsdoc or how?

[Alessandro Perucchi]

Hello Frederick,

What you are quitting the wonderful world of CMOD? My heart is breaking....

Well, I will try to answer your question as best as I can.

as Justin said, "arsdoc" is the way to go in order to have a non painful migration, you will have the index file on one side, and the document on the otherside, and then you can do whatever you want with it (parse and store it in another ECM product).

Now, you are asking lots of question about CMOD backup tapes.
What are these backups? This is the backup of the database? Offline backup of migrated tables in CMOD?

Without that answered it is difficult to answer you.

If that is the normal CMOD Backup, then what you have in there, then it is the database, and in that case if you restore it, you will overwrite your current database with an old status, and you will loose data.

The more specific your question is, the more we can help you.

Sincerely yours,
Alessandro

[Frederick Tybalt]

Hello Alessandro,

If that is the normal CMOD Backup, then what you have in there, then it is the database, and in that case if you restore it, you will overwrite your current database with an old status, and you will loose data.

That is what I was exactly looking for thanks for your response.

What you are quitting the wonderful world of CMOD? My heart is breaking....

This customer had acquired another company that had used CMOD, which is the reason they are looking to migrate from CMOD.