>Brett Walker says....
>Keith,
>If you got a Data Unavailable on server, then that was an error passed back
>from the server.  It means either:
>1) the file was temporarily involved in a reclamation operation
>2) server encountered a read error
>3) or the data was corrupted.
>
>My guess is that the data for that folder (the access privileges) was
>involved in the reclamation process (I assume you were restoring from
>tape).  You would never get the data unavailable error from any error on
>the Mac file system.

Sounds good to me.  Yes, the data was coming from tape and since
mounting another volume took care of the problem and the backup was
successful after the Move&Rename volume was refreshed that way, I
wouldn't think it would be a server read error or corrupted data.
I doubt the backup would have continued so easily after just having
the folder refreshed if it was corrupted data.

>It's true that we backup the Move&Rename folder by default.  You can
>exclude it in the ADSM Preferences file so that none of the files inside
>it (if there are any) get backed up.  However, we still backup the actual
>folder entry, and the access privs associated with it.  However it
>doesn't cause any problems to restore it.  The system usually doesn't
>even care about it.

Surprised me, all I knew about the Move&Rename folder before I got called
was internal Mac thing, ignore it. :)  Only thing I could think of was
that it had been written by a different system than the one the machine
was currently running (ie the floppy system not the one removed from the
hard drive) so create one from the current running system.  Hey, weak
I admit but, it solved the problem.

>We do display invisible files, because you want to be able to backup/restore
>them.  Good example is the Icon file in a folder that changes the icon
>for a folder.  This is an invisible file which you want restored.
>
>Hope this helps...
>Brett Walker

As always, good information and I appreciate the response.  Thanks.

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Keith A. Crabb                    Keith AT uh DOT edu
University of Houston             keith at uhupvm1
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