William, I agree with Wanda about checking the performance of the DB, but if that is not the problem then you may need to try something other than file level backup. Have you considered using image backups? Image backups run much faster and they have the advantage of improving restore times on systems with large number of files.
-- Regards, Mark D. Rodriguez President MDR Consulting, Inc. =============================================================================== MDR Consulting The very best in Technical Training and Consulting. IBM Advanced Business Partner SAIR Linux and GNU Authorized Center for Education IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert, CATE AIX Support and Performance Tuning, RS6000 SP, TSM/ADSM and Linux Red Hat Certified Engineer, RHCE =============================================================================== William Boyer wrote:
I have a client with requirements for full monthly backups being retained for 7-years. 2-years ago we set them up with monthly schedules in a domain with the copygroups set to MODE=ABSOLUTE. Now these backups are running forever and I think it has to do with so many versions of the files and an INCREMENTAL schedule. The admin of ths shop has said that the monthly backups take longer each month. My question...would setting -INCRBYDATE help with this? These backups MUST be a FULL. No choice on that. Bill Boyer "Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional" - ??
