Rick - I think you're perceiving the FAILED column of the Activity Summary table to be a kind of boolean, or condition code. It is actually the number of objects which the (B/A) client reported to have failed in its attempt to back them up, as can occur when a transient file in a file system disappears before TSM gets to reading it for the backup. I don't run TDPs, but I don't believe that this "failed objects count" pertains to them, given that they operate in TSM API "streaming" mode.
For my money, I leave the assessment of backups success to client administrators, who own and are responsible for the data being backed up, rather than try to "read tea leaves" on the TSM server. Richard Sims at Boston University
