Does the tape management class have a longer retention than the default
MC?  If so, backups of directories may be going straight to tape because
the default is to backup directories to the MC with the longest
retention unless this is overwritten with a DIRMC.

Also, if the disk stgpool is full enough that tsm sees it cannot put a
node's estimated backup into it, it will fallback to writing to the
defined nest stgpool which is normally your primary tape pool.

David

>>> billsh AT US.IBM DOT COM 07/30/03 11:29PM >>>
     I have some clients (Windows 2000) that are backing up straight to
my
tapepool instead of the disk pool.  My server is AIX 5.1.6.2.  and most
of
the windows clients are running at 5.1.5.9.  The clients are associated
to
a management class that's default management class should cause the
backups
to go to the disk storage pool.  There is a management class within
the
domain that directs the backups to the tape pool, but I do not have it
included in the dsm.opt file, in fact I do not have any management
class
defined, meaning that it should go to the default.  Has anyone
experienced
this problem?  Also, I tried an incremental of the c drive with the
disk
storage pool empty and it's estimated capacity is 38 gb and it still
called
for a tape.  The capacity of the c drive of the client is under 1.5
gb.

Thanks,
Bill Sherrill