While this doesn't answer your question about tuning, it might help. We have a similar situation, except with our AIX mail systems.
TSM had to scan 6+ MILLION files, nightly. Took way too long to be useful. So instead, we do INCRBYDATE nightly and then on weekends do regular incremental backups. Brenda Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/07/2002 09:44 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Tuning to backup Millions of files Hi! I have an NT server that has an Optika application (Imaging) running on it. It has to search 2 million+ files nightly and ends up backing up about 100,000+ each night. The problem is that it takes about 8 hrs. to do this backup which is not acceptable. Does anyone have any tuning parameters that may help this issue? The files can not be split up among directories anymore than they are. They want their cache files backed up so they copy them over to another directory and we back them up from there. We are upgrading their hardware to see if that helps but if there is any tuning I can do on the TSM side, that would help also. Thanks, Brenda Collins, Sr. Storage Administrator ING 612-342-3839