I'm on Solaris v5.0MP2 also and am able to set "-tries 0".  However, 
from the Admin Console GUI you get a warning box to restart all daemons, 
utilities and Admin Consoles.  I ignored the warning (command line gives 
no warning), and then started a user-backup.  It started and completed, 
apparently indifferent to "-tries 0".  Maybe Veritas should know TSM has 
this very useful feature? ;-)

cheers, wayne

Tim Hoke wrote, in part:

>I checked this out for 5.0 (I'm on Solaris with 5.0_2_M)....
>
>CLI works fine:  'bpconfig -tries 0'
>
>The GUI (jnbSA) reflects this change just fine as well.  The GUI also
>allows me to change it from 0 to 1, apply, then change it back to 0 just
>fine.
>  
>