As per the TSM redbook at: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg245416.pdf
It suggests use of DISKDIRS and OFFDIRS to store directory information to avoid restore-time directory reconstruction hits. Everything makes sense, including the need to explicitly bind all directories on a client to the DISKDIRS management class with DIRMC. The next question is... *how* do you select ONLY directories for this management class without selecting any files within them, in dsm.opt? (Server is 5.1.8.0 on AIX and clients are 5.1.5.14/15 on Windows, Linux, Solaris, and AIX.) I had also checked the TSM 5.1.5 UNIX client reference from: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/TSMC/GC32-0789-02/en_US/PDF/GC32-0789-02.pdf ...and read through everything referencing include, exclude, dirmc, but it's still not obvious to me how to select only directory data for use with DIRMC DISKDIRS. I see there's a dirsonly keyword, but how to use it within context of dsm.opt? include / -dirsonly -dirmc diskdirs ? -Dan