One of my users asked me:


>fred:
>
>1. for several days now, we've been getting a report that looks like this:
>
>ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager
>Command Line Backup Client Interface - Version 3, Release 1, Level 0.5
>(C) Copyright IBM Corporation, 1990, 1998, All Rights Reserved.
>
>Node Name: ENLIL
>Session established with server ADSM: AIX-RS/6000
>  Server Version 3, Release 1, Level 2.13
>  Server date/time: 03/25/99   04:00:02  Last access: 03/25/99   00:30:55
>
>Num     Last Incr Date      Type    File Space Name
>---     --------------      ----    ---------------
>  1   03/24/99   23:40:33  UFS      /
>  2   03/24/99   23:54:58  UFS      /disk/0
>  3   03/25/99   00:01:45  UFS      /disk/1
>> 4   03/22/99   23:52:23  UFS      /disk/2     <
>  5   03/24/99   23:51:14  UFS      /var
>
>
>" > < " indicate a file space that the report says has not been backed
>up since 3/22, but we know that at least a few files have been backed
>up in that file space since that date, because we checked.
>
>QUESTION: do you know what it means when the report is out of synch
>with what has actually taken place? is it a symptom of a problem we
>need to address? if so, what problem?
>
>2. some files have been copied into the file space using a technique
>   that preserves the original date/time stamps. this means they look
>quite old to adsm (e.g., 12/97), but we want adsm to back these files
>up once, since they have been newly added to this file space.
>
>QUESTION: how do we do that?
>
>thanks.
>
>charles
>
Fred Johanson
System Administrator, ADSM
S.E.A.
University of Chicago
773-702-8464