Thought I would add my 2 cents worth :-

I have seen this behaviour as well (unexplainable) - on W2K. It seems like
the archive bit is set and not cleared with an incremental backup (we tried
different backup products here). However, when we do a differential or full
backup this bit is cleared.

I still have to get clarity whether this is a bug, known issue, "limitation"
or the like with TSM or the Operating System ...

(PS: We saw this as well when only changin permissions in the parent
directory - without applying the permission change to all sub-directories).

Regards,
Riaan

-----Original Message-----
From: Riley, Craig [mailto:Riley.Craig AT TCHDEN DOT ORG]
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 3:11 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Strange backup behavior


I have a W2K box that has been backing up just fine for months. Nothing
has changed except the addition of service pack 4 in just as long.
However, when ever I run a backup the client backs up every single file
even though it's executing an incremental. As a test we event manually
did an incr on c:\ waited for it to complete, then did it again; it
backed up every file. Client version is 5.1.0 (realize there's an
upgrade but its worked for us so far) and the server version is 5.1.6.1
.

Any thought would be greatly appriciated

Craig Riley
The Children's Hospital in Denver



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