>Jeff,
>Did you get anywhere with the 'stale nfs mount' message?  I also am getting
>this error on "/" filesystem.  The backup will abort and skip this
>filesystem but continues on with other filesystems etc. to completion.
>ADSM client  3.1.20.6   AIX 4.3.1.0 on SP.
>
>I tried Eric's suggestion of NFSTIMEOUT 10  to no avail.  There is no NFS
>mounts on the node I'm using....

keep increasing it.  it is a disk timeout, and does not need to be a 
nfs-mounted fs to happen.  I have one system set to 60 to prevent the odd 
message...

Richard