Hello,

PITDATE will consider every backup made UNTIL the indicated date.
FROMDATE will consider every backup made AFTER the indicated date.

These 2 parameters are then not comparable at all. The TODATE would be more
parent with pitdate but it will restore any files deleted before the date
given, which pitdate will not.

Regards,



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julie Phinney [SMTP:jphinney AT HUMANA DOT COM]
> Sent: Monday, November 16, 1998 9:43 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: No query restore rep=all -ifn
>
> Thanks, Dave.
> Just to verify the behavior, I did a restore with -PITDATE=11/16/1998,
> it
> mounted all the tapes and session counts indicated all the bytes in the
> directory were moved (although nothing was actually restored).  It was a
> small directory with 30 files and it took 15 minutes.    I did a restore
> of
> the same directory with -FROMD=11/16/1998, and no files were moved and it
> took 2 minutes.    So I guess in our case, if we just want to do an
> incremental recovery to make sure every file in a large directory is
> there,
> we need to use -FROMD  and not   -PITDATE.
> Thanks to all!
> Julie
>
>
>
>
> Dave Crockett <crockett AT US.IBM DOT COM> on 11/16/98 09:29:56 AM
>
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> cc:    (bcc: Julie Phinney/Green Bay/Humana)
> Subject:  Re: No query restore rep=all -ifn
>
>
>
>
>
> The -PITDATE option will use the No-Query Restore protocol.
> The -FROMDATE option will cause it to use the "classic" restore protocol.
>
> Dave Crockett
> crockett AT us.ibm DOT com
> ADSM Development