Administrator's Guide

Chapter 19. Exporting and Importing Data

ADSM provides an export-import facility that allows you to copy all or part of a server to removable media (export) so that data can be transferred to another server (import).

Task	Required Privilege Class
Perform export and import operations	System
Display information about export and import operations	Any administrator

This chapter takes you through the export and import tasks. See the following sections:

Concepts:
"Data That Can Be Exported and Imported"
Tasks:
"Preparing to Export or Import Data"
"Monitoring Export and Import Processes"
"Exporting Data to Sequential Media Volumes"
"Importing Data from Sequential Media Volumes"

In this chapter, most examples illustrate how to perform tasks by using the ADSM command line interface. For information about the ADSM commands, see ADSM Administrator's Reference, or issue the HELP command from the command line of an ADSM administrative client.

All of the ADSM commands can be performed from the administrative client web interface. A Version 3 administrative client GUI is also available for the Windows NT and Windows 95 operating systems. For more information about using the administrative interfaces, see ADSM Quick Start. You can find detailed help for using the graphical user interfaces in the online help facilities.