Hi All;

This may seem like an obvious question, but for some reason I'm having some 
trouble with it.  The way this system was setup Tivoli is backing it's own 
(UNIX) database and log files...and thus the backup fails every morning due to 
changing [TSM] log files.  

1)  Should these files be backed up at all?  I mean if you have to restore - 
you're restoring from a db [tape] backup...right?  So can I just exclude these 
TSM log/db files?  
2)  If these db/log files should be backed up, wouldn't it make more sense to 
have AIX/sysback back them up rather than Tivoli?  As you can't restore these 
files anyway if Tivoli's offline.

Thanks for the help;
Theresa