I opened a problem regarding this with IBM. They have confirmed that this
is a bug in the 3.7 and 4.1 client. This will be fixed in the 4.12 client.
So with 4.12, processing will be as Andy described below.
Tim Rushforth
City of Winnipeg
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rushforth, Tim
> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 11:35 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM. MARIST. EDU (E-mail)
> Subject: Failure of Archive Events with 4.11.16 client on NT
>
> Andy Raibeck wrote in March 1999:
> "In the case of a SELECTIVE backup or an ARCHIVE, if one or more files can
> not be backed up (or archived) then the event will be failed. The
> rationale for this is that if you ask to selectively back up or archive
> one or more files, the assumption is that you want each and every one of
> those files to be processed. If even one file fails, then the event will
> have a status of failed. So the basic difference is that with incremental
> we expect that one or more files might not be able to be processed, so we
> do not flag such a case as failed. In other cases, like SELECTIVE or
> ARCHIVE, we expect that each file specified *must* be processed
> successfully, or else we flag the operation as failed."
>
> Has this changed? Under 3.1.06 client on NT, an archive would show as
> failed if a file was in use. With the 4.11.16 client, archive does not
> show as failed when files are in use or when archiving drives that do not
> exist.
>
> Thanks,
> Tim Rushforth
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
