ADSM-L

Re: FW: Windows95 & time zone change

1996-04-08 18:38:11
Subject: Re: FW: Windows95 & time zone change
From: Paul Zarnowski <VKM AT CORNELLC.CIT.CORNELL DOT EDU>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 18:38:11 EDT
Thanks for the report, Tim.  When you get an APAR number, please let me know
so I can get on the IP list for it.
..Paul
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On Mon, 8 Apr 1996 18:24:00 EDT PITTSON, TIMOTHY said:
On Mon, 8 Apr 1996 18:24:00 EDT PITTSON, TIMOTHY said:
>Oops... correction... only did this to the FAT partitions on my workstation,
>not the NTFS partition.
>
>Tim Pittson
>pittson1 AT bwmail1.hcc DOT com
> ----------
>From: PITTSON, TIMOTHY
>To: ADSM-L
>Subject: RE: Windows95 & time zone change
>Date: Monday, April 08, 1996 6:12PM
>
>Same thing happened on my workstation - I'm  running NT 3.51 and the ADSM
>2.1.03 32-bit Windows client - it ended up backing up all the files on my
>workstation even though I took an incremental last week and very little has
>changed since then.. Sounds like a bug to me - I've opened a problem with
>IBM.
>
>Tim Pittson
>pittson1 AT bmwail1.hcc DOT com
> ----------
>From: owner-adsm-l
>To: Multiple recipients of list ADSM-L
>Subject: Windows95 & time zone change
>Date: Monday, April 08, 1996 3:17PM
>
>We have a Windows 95 user here who reported that when he ran an incremental
>backup yesterday all of the files on his system got backed up again.
>Yesterday was the first day of Daylight Savings Time.
>This is the only explanation I can think of that would cause this.
>He did not re-label his disk.
>I'm thinking that ADSM incorrectly judged that the timestamps on all files
>changed.  The "last modification date/time" is identical for both copies
>of the backed up files, as is everything else about the file copies.
>
>This is the only W95 user we have, so I cannot check to see if this is
>a widespread problem, or something specific to his machine.  Has anyone
>else seen this?  Note that unless you look for it, you might not even
>notice that this has happened.  Probably the best way to tell is to look
>at either the client's scheduler log, or look at the server's accounting
>log (to see if an extraordinary amount of data was backed up).
>
>With only one W95 user, this is a mildly interesting bug.  Next year, we
>are likely to have hundreds of W95 users and it will be a disastrous bug
>(if it is, indeed, a bug at all).
>
>Thanks for any info.
>..Paul
>
>Paul Zarnowski                     Phone:   607/255-4757
>Cornell Information Technologies   Fax:     607/255-6523
>Cornell University                 US Mail: 315 CCC, Ithaca, NY 14853-2601
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