> Recently, the 5 minutes has grown to an hour or more!
> What would cause this?  Why would data go directly to the backup tape pool,
> and not the backup disk pool?

Two things that come to mind is the disk pool filling, and files that
exceed the maxsize setting on the disk storage pool (q stg poolname f=d).

A third would be binding file to a Management class that backs up directly
to tape, bypassing the disk pool.

Steve Roder, University at Buffalo
HOD Service Coordinator
VM Systems Programmer
UNIX Systems Administrator (Solaris and AIX)
TSM/ADSM Administrator
(tkssteve AT buffalo DOT edu | (716)645-3564 | 
http://ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu/~tkssteve)