Hi Del,


>>> hoobler AT US.IBM DOT COM 07/17/03 12:09PM >>>
Larry,

If you are referring to the "Last Backup Start Date/Time:"
on the filespace, it is updated after a successful backup.
Here is an example from my QUERY FILESPACE:
Hi Del,
We back them up using a scheduled script. An example

tsm: BACKUP>q file MSSQLAFS f=d

                       Node Name: MSSQLAFS
                  Filespace Name: AFSDBMS.master
                        Platform: WinNT
                  Filespace Type: API:NTSQL
                   Capacity (MB): 0.0
                        Pct Util: 0.0
     Last Backup Start Date/Time: 07/08/02   21:11:25
  Days Since Last Backup Started: 374
Last Backup Completion Date/Time: 07/08/02   21:11:31
Days Since Last Backup Completed: 374


tsm: TSMSERVER1>q file HOOBLER_SQL f=d

                                      Node Name: HOOBLER_SQL
                                 Filespace Name: HOOBLER\meta\0000
                     Hexadecimal Filespace Name:
                                           FSID: 18
                                       Platform: TDP MSSQL Win32
                                 Filespace Type: API:SqlData
                          Is Filespace Unicode?: No
                                  Capacity (MB): 0.0
                                       Pct Util: 0.0
                    Last Backup Start Date/Time: 07/17/2003 09:50:03
                 Days Since Last Backup Started: <1
               Last Backup Completion Date/Time: 07/17/2003 09:50:04
               Days Since Last Backup Completed: <1
Last Full NAS Image Backup Completion Date/Time:
Days Since Last Full NAS Image Backup Completed:

                                      Node Name: HOOBLER_SQL
                                 Filespace Name: HOOBLER\data\0001
                     Hexadecimal Filespace Name:
                                           FSID: 19
                                       Platform: TDP MSSQL Win32
                                 Filespace Type: API:SqlData
                          Is Filespace Unicode?: No
                                  Capacity (MB): 0.0
                                       Pct Util: 0.0
                    Last Backup Start Date/Time: 07/17/2003 09:50:03
                 Days Since Last Backup Started: <1
               Last Backup Completion Date/Time: 07/17/2003 09:50:04
               Days Since Last Backup Completed: <1
Last Full NAS Image Backup Completion Date/Time:
Days Since Last Full NAS Image Backup Completed:

Thanks,

Del

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> In earlier versions of the TDP for MS-SQL the last backup date was
only
> updated when the backup was executed via the GUI, not through a
script
> running the backup command.
>
> Has that changed with 5.1.5, so it there someway to refresh the
backup
> date through a script I'm not away of?