My understanding is that the -todate will restore all active and inactive up to
that point.  -Pitdate will restore only the files that were active at the date
specified.

This is how I understand it ... we just did a restore using pitdate and it
worked great.  Using -todate would have meant getting some inactive files that
were not needed ...

:  )




"Prather, Wanda" <PrathW1 AT CENTRAL.SSD.JHUAPL DOT EDU> on 05/10/99 01:30:43 PM

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>

To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
cc:    (bcc: Steve Harrison)
Subject:  Still confused about using pitdate...




I'm still confused about the use of "pitdate" to do restores on the V3
client.

I know that pitdate uses the no-query-restore protocol, and todate does not.
But is there any difference in the RESULTS you get with these 2 commands?

dsmc restore -pitdate=05/05/1999  c:\my\windows\directory\*
dsmc restore -todate=05/05/1999   c:\my\windows\directory\*


Enquiring, confused minds want to know.....

************************************************************************
Wanda Prather
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
443-778-8769
wanda_prather AT jhuapl DOT edu

"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" -
Scott Adams/Dilbert
************************************************************************