Re: [Networker] mminfo -m reports different volretent value?

Well, this seems strange, but here's what I've observed. My default timezone on the client is set as EDT, and the so is the server. If I run mycommand, specifying ssretent(18), then I notice that there are a numberof save sets on the volume that report times exactly 1 hour ahead ofwhat the server reports (minutes and seconds are identical, however).

Here's the command: mminfo -s server -q volume=volname -r'name,ssretent(18) -ot'

However, if I then change my time zone, on both the client and theserver, from EDT to UTC then the output is identical, even if specifyingonly ssretent and not ssretent(18). This seems reasonable, but why wouldthe server report some times as being exactly 1 hour behind when itstime zone was set to EDT and so was the client's?

One thing I should note is that root's time on the server is also set toEDT, but root's time on the client is set to UTC. I can understand,therefore, that you might see a time difference of 4-5 hours (dependingon Day Light Savings or non Day Light Savings) when you're comparingsave set times, and you're logged in as root on the client, but whywould you see a difference of 1 hour when the time is set to EDT on both?


George

Darren Dunham wrote:

If I run 'mminfo -s server -m', and I compare the output when run on theserver versus the clients, I see that the output is identical with theexception that one volume is reported with a retention time of 03/14/07when the command is run on the server, but when the same command is runon the clients, the given volume is reported with a retention date of03/15/07. Otherwise, all other output for the command is identical.
Time zone differences?
What happens if you run with -r 'volretent(18)'?  Are all the times off
by an equal offset?
To probe deeper, I then ran 'mminfo -s server -q volume=volname -rname,ssretent -ot > file' on the server and some of the clients. Thereappear to be about 25 save sets on the volume whose reported retentiontimes are one day further in the future when the command is run on theclients versus the server.
Expand ssretent to ssretent(18) and compare.


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