Laurie,

in march we had a comprehensive discussion under the subject
"point-in-time-restore of a filesystem". See LOG9703,
especially the mail of Michael Fink:

> 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

Walter


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>From:  Laurie De Mamiel[SMTP:Laurie.L.R.DeMamiel AT WOODSIDE.COM DOT AU]
>Sent:  Thu; 1997; April 10 04:20
>To:    ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject:       Restore of directory to a given date.
>
>Is there a way to restore a directory to a particular point in time.
>The example that has been given to me is that a directory needs to be
>restored but not all the  files that  are  required are active in ADSM.
>In some cases the active files may be of no use and previous versions
>are required ie inactive files.. The user concerned does not want to
>pick and choose as the directory may contain hundreds or even thousands
>of files.
>
>
>Many thanks
>Laurie de Mamiel
>Woodside Offshore Pet.
>