John, > Anyone know anything about this or have any suggestions on how to get this > AIX client to successfully backup instead of spending so much time checking > each file? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
We did have such problems a long time ago. Every (AIX) user can screw up your backup, by making more then let's say 100.000 files in one directory. This is something Unix don't like. Even a "ls -l" will hardly ever end, ans so does the backupclient too. The only possibility to get a backup which will be successfully, is exclude such a directory, and better exclude such a user from your backup. Just start a 'dsmc i' and you find out where your client will die. Try a "ls -l|wc -l" and see what happens. Exclude that user and email him that his files/directories will never be backup from now one. I garantee you he will remove a lot of files (which will take him quite a while), make apologise himself and ask you after a while "if you please will backup him again", with a couple of mea culpa's etc. Cheers, Henk.
