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Re: strange problem - missing file on server

2005-06-30 11:30:06
Subject: Re: strange problem - missing file on server
From: Andrew Raibeck <storman AT US.IBM DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:29:26 -0700
Is it possible that the file is being inadvertently excluded via some
"include/exclude" pattern?

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com

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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 2005-06-30
08:10:46:

> Hi All,
>
> Has anyone run into this situation before?....
>
> I was asked to restore a single file on a Unix (HP-UX 11i) server.  So I
> fired up the web client, looked in the specified directory, no file, not
> active or inactive.  The file does exist on the client, with a date
stamp
> of Jan 28 2003, and permissions rwxr-x---.  There are other files in the
> directory with same permissions and old (even older) date stamps, that
do
> exist on the server.  We keep logs of our daily backups, so I cthe most
> recent one, which was run earlier the same day (yesterday)... the
directory
> was backed up, but the file was not.  The file's name is
"bkupscripts"...
> nothing weird, no special characters or backspaces in the name.... a
'find
> . -name bkupscripts' command does find the file, as does a 'ls -l'
command.
>
> Client level is 5.2.0.0, Server is 5.2.4.2 (although client reports it
as
> 5.2.3.2... don't know why)
> TSM Server is also HP-UX 11i.
>
> Robin Sharpe
> Berlex Labs