Are you doing incremental or selective backup ?

You should be able to force the root to be backed up (it should work for
incremental) by doing:

                dsmc sel /filesys1/* -volinfo -dirsonly

I know that this works on NT but I can't verify whether or not it works on
Unix. I also know that there is a problem on NT with backing up root
permissions with incremental backup after the initial incremental but this
problem is very specific
to NT and it would be sheer coincidence if the same problem existed on Unix (if
it did it would be for different reasons).

Hope this helps .....

Pete Tanenhaus, ADSM NT Client Development
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ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU on 04/29/98 01:17:41 PM
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Thanks Pete, but I tried what you suggested and (at least on AIX) I had no
luck.  Perhaps I should try to better explain the problem:

Assume I have two filesystems /filesys1 and /filesys1/filesys2.

When I try to restore these filesystems from ADSM I want the ownership and
permission settings of the directories /filesys1 and /filesys1/filesys2 to
be restored correctly, however I can't seem to figure out how.

It appears that the problem is caused because the root (or top-most)
directory of a file space never actually gets backed up!
The backup of /filesys1 never mentions "/filesys1" as being backed up, and
it skips /filesys1/filesys2 because it is a separate file space.
If you try to do a selective backup of a regular directory, it works, but
if you try to do the same thing with a file space root directory (eg: dsmc
selective /filesys1) you get the error "ANS1081E Invalid search file
specification '/filesys1' entered".

Probably because they are never backed up, they also can never be restored!
 I personally feel that this is a bug.

Does anyone else have any comments or experiences?  Give it a try for
yourselves.  Change the permissions on /home and then try to restore them.
I don't think it is possible.

Thanks,

At 02:30 PM 29/04/98 -0400, you wrote:
>There seems to be some problems with this in version 3.
>
>You should be able to force the root to be restored bydoing the following:
>
>    dsmc restore / -volinfo -dirsonly -test=disablenqr
>
>Note that the test=disablenqr is only required if you are going to a
version 3
>server.
>
>Hope this helps .....
>
>Pete Tanenhaus, ADSM NT Client Development
>---------------------- Forwarded by Pete Tanenhaus/San Jose/IBM on 04/29/98
>11:16 AM ---------------------------
>
>
>ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU on 04/29/98 07:50:29 AM
>Please respond to ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
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>Subject: Restoring permission of file space root directories
>
>
>Hello all,
>
>I'm finding that it seems impossible to restore the directory permissions
>of the root directory or mount point of a file space (ie: file system) on
>UNIX boxes.  I am running at the latest client level ov V3 and I have
>tested this on AIX and Solaris.
>
>Can anyone shed any light on this?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Scott.
>Scott McCambly
>AIX/NetView/ADSM Specialist - Unopsys Inc.  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
>(613)238-5620
>
>
>
>
>
Scott McCambly
AIX/NetView/ADSM Specialist - Unopsys Inc.  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
(613)238-5620