This was my impression also.... It has always been my understanding that
ADSM did not touch the archive bit, if it did it would probably get confused
very quickly.
I've ran ADSM concurrently with another Backup product which did utilise the
archive bit yet ADSM did not behave any differently. This would lead me to
believe that ADSM paid no attention to the archive bit. This is after all
part of the function of the ADSM database. No?

Nathan


        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Prather, Wanda [SMTP:PrathW1 AT CENTRAL.SSD.JHUAPL DOT EDU]
        Sent:   Wednesday, March 10, 1999 8:47 AM
        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        Subject:        Re: You learn something new everyday.

        This sounds strange to me, too - I didn't think ADSM altered
anything on
        disk during a backup.

        > -----Original Message-----
        > From: Richard Sims [SMTP:rbs AT BU DOT EDU]
        > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 7:27 AM
        > To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        > Subject:      Re: You learn something new everyday.
        >
        > >Because as most all backup solutions do,  ADSM writes
        > >an archive bit to the data that has been backed up.
        >
        > Or, rather, that the operating system updates the file's
administrative
        > info to reflect it having been read by the application program?
        >    Richard Sims, BU