Keep in mind, this system has been working flawlessly for at least two years, which is why we don't touch it. We have enough headaches, we don't need to create our own. :-)
At the time we noticed this problem we were doing tests before putting this machine into production, a backup test is standard procedure. The system was idle except for this backup, this was during the day, so no other backups were going on at the same time, hence, the TSM server was also idle. Our quick reality check was to kick off a backup from a known working server, and watch the traffic. Pretty much nailing this down to the client machine, or a TSM version incompatibility issue. Backups were going to a disk storage pool, not tape. One of my original questions. What are the current supported versions of TSM, and which of those supported versions is known as the stable one, backing up TDP Domino, Oracle, DB2 (via API) and standard filesystem backups. This upgrade has been put off because I've been told it is a double hit, OS and TSM at the same time. Not fun, but at least the maintenance window is during the day. Versions: TSM Server: 4.2.1.7 Server OS: AIX: 433-10 (32-bit) Client OS: AIX 510-03 (32-bit) TSM API: 4.2.3.0 <- I seem to recall we had to go above 4.2.1.7 to get it to work at all. It appears I need to get some PTF's for AIX 5 that are known to fix network problems, so I'll start there -JeffR
