Archives are not incremental by nature.  You should look at the archive
command and the output from it's execution.  Eyeball this with the
directories and files on your system.  I bet there's a problem with the
command and not all your files were included.


Tina Hilton
Thomson Consumer Electronics
hiltont AT indy.tce DOT com

> ----------
> From:         Wayne
> Merchant[SMTP:Wayne_Merchant/FALLSCHURCH/VBHNotes AT VBH DOT COM]
> Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> Sent:         Friday, October 24, 1997 1:26 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Monthly, Quarterly, and Yearly Historical Backups
>
> We are required to maintain historical information for numerous
> entities
> and reasons. We also need this to be stored off site.
>
> We have been trying to get a month end " snapshot" of our data to no
> avail.
> ADSM support has advised us to do an archive.
> The first time run we captured 300gb. After our second monthly archive
> was
> only 150gb, support indicated the archives were probably incrementals
> and
> suggested we run an export node. They also advised us that we could
> only
> run this once a month. We have tried to complete an export node
> several
> times only to have some problem occur that failed the job. (System
> crashes,
> and loss of power and such.)
>
> It would seem reasonable that backup requirements and processes that
> have
> occured for decades should be easily handled by ADSM.
>
> Is anyone generating these types of backups for historical off site
> storage??
>
> Wayne
>