You would think manufacturers would have sorted an issue like this out as it
obviously would impact a scripted backup of disk content..
Your workaround (which in your case would be expensive both in terms of time
and disc storage space) would be to have a staging type of a local directory
to copy your backup to. And then copy that staging directory to the backup
drive..
The next time you want to backup your script compares the contents of the
staging directory on your local drive, and copies the delta and changes, and
then move that to the backup drive..
Like I said more time consuming and more expensive..
Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: Cecil, Ken
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 4:10 PM Newsgroups:
public.remedy.arsystem.general
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Slightly OT: Where does $DATE$ come from?
Yeah. I have a script running robocopy.exe to sync my laptop files with an
external usb drive and it always ends up recopying everything after the DST
change instead of just the files that had changed since the last backup.
I'll be putting of my backup now for a few days since I know its going to
take at least 5 hours for it to run :(
Ken.
-----Original Message-----
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe Martin D'Souza
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 1:49 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Slightly OT: Where does $DATE$ come from?
I wonder if this is explainable.. It’s the Date Modified attribute of a file
on disk - which when copied to a flash drive, the value is the same, until
the day the time changes.. ((See attached image))
Notice that the last file that I copied today has the exact same time while
the files that were copied before today *HAD* the exact same time until
Saturday night.. Where they all fell an hour behind on the flash drive..
I thought it was interesting.. And I found an interesting and plausible
explanation to it..
http://ask-leo.com/why_do_file_timestamps_compare_differently_every_time_change.html
Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: Misi Mladoniczky
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 1:23 PM Newsgroups:
public.remedy.arsystem.general
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Where does $DATE$ come from?
Hi,
If you are on the same timezone as the server, and your clock is accurate,
you should see the same thing regardless of where the $DATE$ was called
(server or client).
If you are on a different timezone, the date-time returned by $DATE$ will
vary.
If the server sets $DATE$ to "2012-03-31" it will add "00:00:00" as time
giving us "2012-03-31 00:00:00" from the servers perspective.
Depending on if you are before or behind the serer from a
timezone-perspective, you might see:
2012-03-30 22:00:00
2012-03-30 23:00:00
2012-03-31 00:00:00
2012-03-31 01:00:00
2012-03-31 02:00:00
And if it is a field that shows only the date-part and hides the time, you
might see the following depending on the client timezone setting:
2012-03-30
2012-03-30
2012-03-31
2012-03-31
2012-03-31
But it will always be the same number of seconds since the birth of Unix
(1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT), which is some comfort as least...
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Yes, this is an escalation that does the set field. Both server and
client are in the Eastern Time Zone, so very strange.
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of LJ LongWing
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 1:04 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Where does $DATE$ come from?
**
And…being yesterday was daylight savings day….are the client/server in
the same tz, do they both honor dst same?
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe Martin D'Souza
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 10:37 AM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG<mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG>
Subject: Re: Where does $DATE$ come from?
**
Depending on what is used to set it.. Is it an Active Link? Or a
Filter/Escalation?
In case of an Active Link, the $DATE$ would taken from the client.
In case of server side workflow objects, Filters or Escalations, they
are set from the AR System application server (not the database
application server).
Joe
From: Brittain, Mark<mailto:mbritt...@navisite.com>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 12:28 PM
Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG<mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG>
Subject: Where does $DATE$ come from?
**
Hi All,
Where does the $DATE$ function get the date/time information, the OS
server or the database server. This may seem like a strange question
but yesterday I had a case where $TIMESTAMP$ was work correctly and
diary field entries were correct but the $DATE$ was on hour behind as
3/10/2012 23:00:00 PM. Strangely today, it working correctly as
3/12/2012 00:00:00 AM
ARS 6.3 patch 20
SunOS 5.9
Oracle 9.2
Thanks
Mark
Mark Brittain
Remedy Developer
ITILv3 Foundation
NaviSite – A Time Warner Cable Company
mbritt...@navisite.com<mailto:mbritt...@navisite.com>
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