Justin,

YOu must first define a device class of type FILE.  For example:

DEFINE DEVCLASS dbbkupondisk  DEVTYPE=FILE  FORMAT=DRIVE  MAXCAPACITY=500M
MOUNTLIMIT=1 DIRECTORY=/var/adsmpool   SHARED=NO

*       dbbkupondisk is a name I made up, pick anything you like.

*       DIRECTORY is just the path/directory name where you want to put the
disk database dump.  If your TSM server is Windows, yours will look more
like:  C:\TEMP\TSMdir

*       MAXCAPACITY is the max size you want the output to be; make it large
enough to handle 1 DB backup.  (It will still work if you make it too small,
but gets more complicated.)

One you have created the devclass, you start your DB backup pointing to that
device class:

BACKUP DB TYPE=INCR DEVCLASS=DBBACKUPONDISK SCRATCH=YES

Watch your activity log to see what happens. TSM will start the DB backup,
CREATE a backup for you in that directory.  You will see in the activity log
the name of the file that gets created.  (If the DB backup is bigger than
MAXCAPACITY, TSM just keeps creating more files as needed.)

Hope that helps.

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