Yesterday I ran through a disaster recovery exercise. The TSM software I had installed was a newer version than that installed on the original server. After running dsmserv.exe I came across my first issue

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C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\server>dsmserv
ANR0900I Processing options file c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\server1\dsmserv.o- pt.
ANR7800I DSMSERV generated at 16:54:43 on Dec 7 2006.

Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows
Version 5, Release 4, Level 0.0

Licensed Materials - Property of IBM

(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1990, 2007.
All rights reserved.
U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corporation.

ANR4726I The ICC support module has been loaded.
ANR0990I Server restart-recovery in progress.
ANR0200I Recovery log assigned capacity is 500 megabytes.
ANR0201I Database assigned capacity is 51200 megabytes.
ANR0306I Recovery log volume mount in progress.
ANR0983W The server database was recorded by a down-level version of the server program. The UPGRADEDB parameter is required to start the server and automatically upgrade the database contents to the current server version.
Please refer to installation instructions for precautionary backup procedures prior to doing this.

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The instructions are clear and the operation looked simple, but I wasn't convinced. Despite my uncertainty I decided to proceed.

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C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\server>dsmserv upgradedb
ANR0900I Processing options file c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\server1\dsmserv.o- pt.
ANR7800I DSMSERV generated at 16:54:43 on Dec 7 2006.

Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows
Version 5, Release 4, Level 0.0

Licensed Materials - Property of IBM

(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1990, 2007.
All rights reserved.
U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corporation.

ANR4726I The ICC support module has been loaded.
ANR0990I Server restart-recovery in progress.
ANR0200I Recovery log assigned capacity is 500 megabytes.
ANR0201I Database assigned capacity is 51200 megabytes.
ANR0306I Recovery log volume mount in progress.
ANR0363I Database was automatically upgraded to the server program level.
ANR0287W Contents of the page shadow file dbpgshdw.bdt are not valid.
ANR0285I Database page shadowing started using file dbpgshdw.bdt.
ANR0353I Recovery log analysis pass in progress.
ANR0354I Recovery log redo pass in progress.
ANR0355I Recovery log undo pass in progress.
ANR0352I Transaction recovery complete.

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After running the upgrade I was sure problems were to follow however everything's been working as expected. A welcomed change

Thanks
Rick111