$)C $)CI'm not sure why you aren't seeing any files get backed up (maybe none are
eligible for backup?), but APAR IC29686 addresses the ANS4031E message.
Here is the description of the APAR:

===== BEGIN APAR DESCRIPTION =====
 ERROR DESCRIPTION:
       Customer tries to back up a fully qualified path that is too
       long. This will cause the object to fail. When the backup is
       completed, the summary does not show any failed objects even
       though ones with paths that are too long will fail. Directly
       after the summary statistics there is a message issued:
       ANS4031E Error processing '/': destination directory path length
       exceedssystem maximum.
       -
       These objects should be logged as failed objects in the summary.
       LOCAL FIX:
       None.
===== BEGIN APAR DESCRIPTION =====

You may have a recursive symbolic link, which could cause TSM to think
that there is a path that is too long (the '/' is a "red herring"). From
what I understand about this problem, the problem object is skipped, but
just not logged as an error.

This is fixed in the 4.2 client, but 4.2 requires Red Hat Linux 7.0 or
7.1.

If you need further assistance, please contact IBM/Tivoli support and
provide them with your symptoms, and mention APAR IC29686.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Tivoli Systems
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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Internet e-mail: araibeck AT us.ibm DOT com

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When I issued 'dsmc incr', the following error occured and there is no
backup data..
Anybody know why??
Appreciate any suggestions..

client os:
Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot)
Kernel 2.2.14-5.0smp on an i686
tsm server ver: 4.1.3
tsm client: 4.1


ANS4031E Error processing '/': destination directory path length exceeds
system
maximum

[root@host herbdb]# dsmc incr
Tivoli Storage Manager
Command Line Backup Client Interface - Version 4, Release 1, Level 0.0
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation, 1990, 2000, All Rights Reserved.

Node Name: JOINWEB01
Session established with server SERVER1: Solaris 2.6
  Server Version 4, Release 1, Level 3.0
  Server date/time: 08/23/2001 18:03:52  Last access: 08/23/2001 17:45:37


Incremental backup of volume '/'

Incremental backup of volume '/boot'
ANS1898I ***** Processed     6,000 files *****
ANS1898I ***** Processed     8,000 files *****
ANS1898I ***** Processed     9,000 files *****
ANS1898I ***** Processed     9,500 files *****
Successful incremental backup of ''

ANS1898I ***** Processed    10,000 files *****

Total number of objects inspected:   10,090
Total number of objects backed up:        0
Total number of objects updated:          0
Total number of objects rebound:          0
Total number of objects deleted:          0
Total number of objects expired:          0
Total number of objects failed:           0
Total number of bytes transferred:        0
Data transfer time:                    0.00 sec
Network data transfer rate:            0.00 KB/sec
Aggregate data transfer rate:          0.00 KB/sec
Objects compressed by:                    0%
Elapsed processing time:           00:00:24
ANS4031E Error processing '/': destination directory path length exceeds
system
maximum