The client does not decide on its own to back up all files every night. Something else is almost certainly triggering that behavior.
Likely possibilities: someone changed a copy group's MODE setting (on the TSM server) to ABSOLUTE (though that could affect all nodes belonging to that policy), or someone performed mass changes on the client file system, perhaps security changes, which will trigger backups of all changed files. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageManager.html The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. "Good enough" is the enemy of excellence. "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 10/19/2006 08:00:11 AM: > One of my clients has decided to back up all files every night, instead of > performing an incremental backup, so I have multiple identical copies of > ancient files and old versions of files are rapidly overwritten by multiple > copies of the current version. > > I'm using the BA Client and all my client machines use a single policy. I've > checked that the default backup action in the client is incremental. Nothing > is logged to the error log that might suggest problems. > > Is this a common problem and how can I fix it? I'm not that experienced with > TSM yet but we're running 5.3.3 on Windows 2003. > > Thanks
