I see your points - this is obviously a real need.

While we are on this subject - All of these facilities need to be added to
the GUI interface as well - it would seem as though one additional screen
could handle the appropriate date boxes and options.  Having this only
available to customers through the command line, when most "modern" (read
non-technical) users don't know what a command prompt is, is not
acceptable.  And platforms like Macintosh can't even use it; and other Mac
wantabes (like Win95) sure push you that way.

Jerry Lawson


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Subject: Re: point-in-time-restore of a filesystem
Author:  INTERNET.OWNERAD at SNADGATE
Date:    3/20/97 3:01 AM


On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Jerry Lawson wrote:

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> What about using -Latest in conjunction with -todate?

This "resurrects" files that were deliberately deleted by users.

Assume e.g. that a HOME file system of a large central UNIX system
breaks (causing the mount point to appear as an empty directory at
least in some versions of UNIX), and an incremental backup is
scheduled before the problem is discovered. In this case, thousands
of users will have to manually sort out old versions of files.
This is inacceptible to any installation with more than a handful
of users. Currently, I know of no workaround to this serious problem.

What we really need is an option to QUERY BACKUP and RESTORE that
permits selecting all files that were active at a given point of time.
The -TODATE option does not do this (which I originally misunderstood).
Since ADSM already keeps track of the date when a file was inactivated
(for expiry purposes), this should be easy to implement.

Sincerely,   Michael Fink

> Jerry Lawson
> jlawson AT thehartford DOT com
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> Author: INTERNET.OWNERAD
> Subject: Re: point-in-time-restore of a filesystem
> 03-19-97 10:27 AM

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