Thomas, Thats a good question. Since the main advantage of incrbydate is to avoid that tiresome list of active objects being built, then it would not make sense to pass individual dates for every active object. You would think it safe to assume that it does not pass a date later than the completion of the last incremental backup, but it would be nice for confirmation.
Thomas Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/19/2002 04:19:40 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE) Subject: incrbydate option The documentation for the incrbydate options states that it will "back up new and changed files with a modification date later than the last incremental backup stored at the server". This is somewhere between ambiguous and incoherent. An incremental backup takes place over a time interval, not at a specific moment. Does anyone know exactly what time is compared to the file modification times? The clocks on most if not all of our client systems are synchonized to an NNTP server. The clock on our OS/390 TSM server is synchronized to the operator's wristwatch. As a result, the mainframe clock is often as much as several minutes out of synchronization with the client clocks. How does this affect the behavior of the incrbydate option? I am getting extremely tired of spending time dealing with amgiguities, omissions, and outright errors in the TSM documentation. ********************************************************************** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy plc. It is intended solely for the addressees. Access to this E-Mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any unauthorised recipient should advise the sender immediately of the error in transmission. Scottish Hydro-Electric, Southern Electric, SWALEC and S+S are trading names of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group. **********************************************************************
