Did you check the dsm.opt file for a DOMAIN statement?  Are you
somehow specifically including the NFS Mounts in the backup.
There may be some other problem.

You say if the NFS server is down.  What is it serving?  Tell us a bit =
more
about your setup.

David Longo

>>> Mark_Adams AT CSGSYSTEMS DOT COM 03/14/02 09:56AM >>>
We are running AIX 4.3.3 ML09

I have tried the nfstimeout parameter but our backups still fail.
The client just stales out, if the NFS server is down.

Mark