Don Avart wrote:

A user asked me this question today and I don't have an answer.  We have
just switched over all users from our old system to a new system and she
is moving files from the old nfs server to the new nfs server.  She wants
the files that she is moving over to maintain the create/modify date.
Many of the files that she is moving will overwrite existing files with
the same name.  So the question is, what will tsm do if the file has a
create date that is older than the file that was previously there.

Don,

ITSM uses several criteria to decide whether a file is a canidate for
backup.  The modified TS is only one.  It looks at the size and
persmissions as well.  I suspect that there are other attributes that
will cause the file to be backed up in addition to a change in the
modified TS.

So the short answer is YES they will be backedup the next time an
incremental is run.

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Regards,
Mark D. Rodriguez
President MDR Consulting, Inc.

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