TSM server 5.2.2.0 on AIX, client 5.2.2.0 on Win 2003 Std

About 2 weeks ago we noticed that the daily scheduled incremental backups on
our 2 big fileservers were behaving oddly.

When the scheduled incrementals run, or if I use an immediate action, or
command line from the machines themselves, the backups look like they
complete normally, but they only show that they have examined < 10k files.
There is no error message in the sched log or the activity log, nothing in
dsmerror or dsierror, no dump, nothing.  the schedule reports completed
successfully.

If I termserv to the machines and backup through the client gui, it behaves
normally and backs up tons of files.

These file servers each have 2 volumes of 1.7TB and 1.3TB with over 5mil
files on each.  These volumes have been increased every few weeks due to
running out of space.

I havent found any apar that seems to fit this odd behavior, and we havent
touched the tsm client on these machines for at least 6 months.  we are not
using journaling on them.

anyone seen anything that would shed light?

Steve Schaub
Systems Engineer, WNI
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
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