ADSM always goes for the active (most recent) version of a file unless you
explicitly request an older version (via the GUI or the -pick, -fromdate,
-todate, -inactive, etc., options).
You said that you have COPYFREQUENCY=0 but you didn't indicate that yYou said 
that you have COPYFREQUENCY=0 but you didn't indicate that you are
doing selective backups. For incremental backups, COPYFREQUENCY is used as a
criterion to determine whether a changed file should be backed up. It does not
guarantee that the file will be backed up. COPYFREQUENCY indicates the minimum
number of days that must have transpired before a changed file is eligible for
incremental backup. For instance, if COPYFREQUENCY=3, then even if the file
changes daily, it won't back it up until at least 3 days have gone by since the
last time it was backed up. COPYFREQUENCY=0 just means that if the file changes
daily, then it is eligible for backup the next time incremental backup runs.

If you did not specify an older version, try issuing the QUERY BACKUP command
for these files to confirm the last backup date.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Storage Systems Division
ADSM Client Development
e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com



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Subject: How far back does ADSM look for a file?


Here's a strange one.
I have copy frequency set to 0. I've been backing up a subdirectory which
hasn't changed since last August. Today, I needed to restore that
subdirectory. ADSM was asking for a very old tape which of course was
off-site. It looks like even though there were files that could have been
restored from newer tapes, it went back to the beginning for the first copy
of the file. I know about the "Fromdate" command line parameter but I'm
quite puzzled by this. Can anyone answer the question "if there are
multiple copys of an identical file and a restore is invoked, which file
will be used?"


I'd like to know <g>

Regards