Thanks for the good suggestions.  I made sure I was unlimited in all
aspects and checked for any circular linkage - all to no avail.

Well, it turn out that the problem is using exclude.dir on any directory
that is also a passed to dsmc as a filesystem to be backed up.  Tivoli's
solution is to not use exclude.dir -- Gee, thanks a lot Tivoli.

This problem supposedly affects 4.1.2 clients for all platforms.

Cheers,
Robert Kennedy
University of Texas at Austin
ITS UNIX Services



On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Richard Sims wrote:

> Robert - Are your Unix Limits values thwarting your efforts?
>          Make sure that important values are Unlimited.
>
> Consider doing a 'dsmc i' in the branch of the file system where the
> backup fails, if it is consistently failing in one spot: there could
> be something wrong in there, like circular symlinks.
> Look for any error indications in dsmerror.log and /var/log/messages.
>
>   Richard Sims   Mostly an AIX guy, but suffer from a bit of Solaris
>