ADSM-L

Re: last backup date on GUI

1998-09-03 19:07:48
Subject: Re: last backup date on GUI
From: Andrew Raibeck <storman AT US.IBM DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 19:07:48 -0400
Hello Keith,

Interestingly enough, I had someone ask me about this
at SHARE (Hi Gretchen), and I just spoke to one of our
lead deveopers about it. This is something we're looking
at doing eventually (it's on our "to do" list). No
promises, but it *might* be as soon as the next PTF....

In the mean time, you could create a batch file that gives
you the same information, but from the command line interface
(not as pretty as the GUI, but it works). On NT, I created a
QF.CMD file like this:

=======================================
@echo off
g:
cd \adsm\baclient
dsmc.exe q f -optfile=myoptfile.opt
pause
=======================================

I then creatd an icon on my desktop that executes QF.CMD.
When I double-click it, I get this:

=======================================
ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager
Command Line Backup Client Interface - Version 3, Release 1, Level 0.6 j
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation, 1990, 1998, All Rights Reserved.

Node Name: STORMAN
Session established with server ADSM: Windows NT
  Server Version 3, Release 1, Level 1.3
  Server date/time: 09/10/1998 16:03:47  Last access: 09/10/1998 15:58:29

Num     Last Incr Date      Type    File Space Name
---     --------------      ----    ---------------
  1   08/31/1998 07:56:16  NTFS     DriveZ
  1   08/31/1998 07:56:16  NTFS     DriveZ
  2   00/00/0000 00:00:00  NTFS     TEMP_DATA
  3   09/03/1998 08:51:39  NTFS     \\storman\c$
  4   09/03/1998 08:36:29  NTFS     \\storman\d$
  5   09/03/1998 08:36:01  NTFS     \\storman\e$
  6   09/03/1998 08:20:47  FAT      \\storman\f$
  7   09/03/1998 08:11:25  FAT      \\storman\g$
  8   09/03/1998 07:28:34  NTFS     \\storman\z$
Press any key to continue . . .
=======================================

Regards,

Andy

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

Does anyone else have users requesting that they be able to see when the
last backup was done on their systems?

The V1 and V2 GUI's use to display that information when you were
selecting drives/filespaces for backup.  With V3 it disappeared and
hasn't made a return yet and that is the complaint we receive the most
here.  While it's true with point-in-time restores in V3, you don't
have to know when the last backup is (from a certain perspective), the
user isn't easily able to tell when the last successful backup was.

While I know they could find the information in a log file on the
system, that's not something I'm going to try and get non-technical
desktop, or for that matter some of our techical people, to do once or
twice a week and while we do have an e-mail based notification system to
help out and remind users, the desktop is still their responsibility.
We have to deal with a lot of restore questions of the "well the file
was there yesterday..." and the user can't tell that the last backup
was the day before yesterday.

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  Keith A. Crabb          Keith AT UH DOT EDU                 0-
  Keith A. Crabb          Keith AT UH DOT EDU                 0-
  University of Houston   Team Leader Academic Systems +1-713-743-1530
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