Kevin,

Are you sure that someone hasn't set the mode to absolute in your  backup
copygroup?  Some places run a weekly full by setting the mode to absolute
via an admin schedule and then back to modified in another schedule.  If
yours does this could the "change back" have failed?

Regards

Steve

Steve Harris
TSM Admin, Sydney Australia





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Thanks for the reply Mark. That isn't the case here - I only have three
NetWare servers that are running in a cluster - the other 20 or so are
standalone, and all are exhibiting the problem.

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Kevin P. Kinder
> Server:  TSM running on z/OS 1.7
>              Just upgraded to 5.5
> My NetWare clients are now running full backups instead of the
> incrementals which are specified. It looks as if every Netware server
> that I have is doing this. Obviously, this is killing my disk and tape
> storage space. This is happening on client versions from 5.2-5.4

Are your NetWare boxes running in a clustered environment? If so, you
may have a situation where NetWare changes a file attribute on every
file on every cluster disk that gets moved from one node to another.
When the attribute gets changed, TSM sees it as a changed file and backs
it up again.

I ran across this issue a year or so ago at a customer site. I don't
know the details (the NetWare admin was fiercely protective of his
environment and wasn't forthcoming with help). If this is the case, the
issue lay with NetWare, not TSM.

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Mark Stapleton
Berbee (a CDW company)
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
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