Does the tape management class have a longer retention than the default MC? If so, backups of directories may be going straight to tape because the default is to backup directories to the MC with the longest retention unless this is overwritten with a DIRMC.
Also, if the disk stgpool is full enough that tsm sees it cannot put a node's estimated backup into it, it will fallback to writing to the defined nest stgpool which is normally your primary tape pool. David >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/30/03 11:29PM >>> I have some clients (Windows 2000) that are backing up straight to my tapepool instead of the disk pool. My server is AIX 5.1.6.2. and most of the windows clients are running at 5.1.5.9. The clients are associated to a management class that's default management class should cause the backups to go to the disk storage pool. There is a management class within the domain that directs the backups to the tape pool, but I do not have it included in the dsm.opt file, in fact I do not have any management class defined, meaning that it should go to the default. Has anyone experienced this problem? Also, I tried an incremental of the c drive with the disk storage pool empty and it's estimated capacity is 38 gb and it still called for a tape. The capacity of the c drive of the client is under 1.5 gb. Thanks, Bill Sherrill