If the file has not changed since last August, an incramental backup would not
have written anothe copy since then! This would explain why it was looking for
an old tape.

Peter Gathercole.

Robert A. Burdick wrote:

> Here's a strange one.
> I have copy frequency set to 0. I've been backing up a subdirectory which
> hasn't changed since last August. Today, I needed to restore that
> subdirectory. ADSM was asking for a very old tape which of course was
> off-site. It looks like even though there were files that could have been
> restored from newer tapes, it went back to the beginning for the first copy
> of the file. I know about the "Fromdate" command line parameter but I'm
> quite puzzled by this. Can anyone answer the question "if there are
> multiple copys of an identical file and a restore is invoked, which file
> will be used?"
>
> I'd like to know <g>
>
> Regards