Hi! Thank u for your reply,
yes ofcourse i created the dsm.opt in the DX home directory, and i am able to create virtual media and assin to the media folders, when i tried to migrate files by copying the files to the media directory on the extended drive, It is giving an error "INCORRECT CONFIGURATION" in DX the dsm.opt file details: *=============================================================================== * Note: This file was generated by a TSM client configuration utility. * * Generated on Sat Jan 17 15:37:49 2004 * * ADSM Administrator: Administrator @ TSMSERVER * *=============================================================================== nodename backupserver commmethod TCPIP tcpport 1500 tcpserveraddress 192.168.1.34 exclude *:\io.sys exclude *:\msdos.sys exclude *:\ibmbio.com exclude *:\ibmdos.com exclude *:\...\pagefile.sys exclude *:\...\system32\config\*.* exclude *:\...\system32\config\...\* exclude *:\...\*.dsm tcpwindowsize 63 *tcpbufsize 32 txnbytelimit 25600 largecommbuffers no commmethod tcpip compression no replace prompt subdir yes tapeprompt no language ameng ** EOF can you help me further! Thank you very much Dinakar .R __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/