Thanks to all those who replied. I am now using TSM4.1 to run these test
backups. Each backup is taking around 1hr longer than the previous backup. I
noticed that the files are being marked as inactive when I run the next sel
backup so I assume this is the reason for the extra hrs delay on the backup
time.


Next question -  is there any function to tune on the TSM server to make the
setting of filesin the TSM database to inactive to run faster, thus speeding up
the backup



TIA



Toni