Hi,

On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Dieringer Walter VAI/COI wrote:

> 1       creation of files A, B, D & incremental backup
> 2       deletion of D & incremental backup
> 3       the active files are now A, B ( = status wanted )
> 4       modification of A & incremental backup
> 5       deletion of filesystem & recreation of filesystem
> 6       now I want to restore the file system to time stamp 3
>
> A. "dsmc restore -TODATE=3" restores only file B,
> which wasn't modified since time stamp 3
> but does not restore file A which was modified after then,
> so the version of file A at time 3 had been set to inactive.
>
> B. "dsmc restore -TODATE=3 -INA" restores files B,C,D
> although file D was already deleted at this time.
> The existence of file D is incorrect. I get too many files!

Maybe it helps to add the option -FROMDATE=2, the point of time
shortly after the backup was made.

dsmc restore -FROMDATE=2 (plus a few hours) -TODATE=3 -INACTIVE

Regards,

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