I concur with Wanda's comments already made on this thread.

As to why it is backing the files up again... something isn't right, but
the evidence is not clear.

1) Use QUERY NODE to confirm the policy domain name.

2) Query *all* backup copy groups in the policy domain and ensure that
none of them have a mode of ABSOLUTE. Make sure you check the copy groups
in the ACTIVE policy set.

3) Make sure you activated the policy set.

4) Are you sure the files are being bound to the management class you
think they are being bound to?

5) How certain are you that some part of the file didn't change (security
attributes, for example). There are no known defects in TSM where
incremental backup exhibits the behavior you are seeing. There is almost
certainly another explanation.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 11/17/2004
03:07:48:

> Hi all !
>
> TSM 5.2 on W2K...
>
> I' d like  :
>
> -a full backup of a folder (and its content) on a client on sunday.
> -an incremental backup only if a file is modified every night of the
week
> -and so on...
>
> My  backup copy group is set up like that
>
>
>  Policy Domain Name              FS01_POLICY_DOMAIN
>
>  Policy Set Name                 FS01_POLICY_SET
>
>  Mgmt Class Name                 FS01_MGMT_CLASS
>
>  Copy Group Name                 STANDARD
>
>  Versions Data Exists            2
>
>  Versions Data Deleted           1
>
>  Retain Extra Versions           30
>
>  Retain Only Version             60
>
>  Copy Mode                       MODIFIED
>
>  Copy Serialization              SHRSTATIC
>
>  Copy Frequency                  0
>
>  Copy Destination                FS01DEV0_DISKPOOL1
>
>  Table of Contents (TOC)         -
>  Destination
>
>  Last Update Date/Time           2004-10-25
>                                  16:43:29.000000
>
>  Last Update by (administrator)  ADMIN
>
>  Managing profile                -
>
>
>
>
> Now when I do for the first time (sunday) :
>
>       dsmc i D:\MyFolder\ -subdir=yes
>
> all of my files in MyFolder are backed up, as it should be.
>
> But when I enter the same command the day after, it backs up everything
> again whereas no file has changed. The copy mode MODIFIED should not
make
> only a backup of modified file?
>
> How should I do to bakcup what I want like I want?
>
> Thank you
>
> Nicolas