Thanx Nathan
Will try that.
Johan Gouws
johang AT hollard.co DOT za



> ----------
> From:         Nathan King[SMTP:nathan.king AT USAA DOT COM]
> Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> Sent:         Thursday, July 15, 1999 2:29 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Backup and restore of NT event logs.
>
> Also in answer to questions 2.
>
> The command to restore is dsmc> eventrest
> (entire,security,system,application). But all this does is restore the
> files
> previously in c:\adsm.sys\eventlog into c:\adsm.sys\eventlog.res.
>
> Since eventb places all it's event logs c:\adsm.sys\eventlog and then
> backs
> it up, to do a point in time all you have to do is a PIT restore for that
> particular directory.
>
> In order to dump the event logs to a different dir and then backup you
> could
> use the ntreskit command dumpel . Syntax is provided by typing dumpel /?
> at
> the command line.
>
> Nathan
>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From:   Johan Gouws [SMTP:JohanG AT HOLLARD.CO DOT ZA]
>         Sent:   Thursday, July 15, 1999 3:36 AM
>         To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>         Subject:        Backup and restore of NT event logs.
>
>         Hi all
>         I would like more information on the backup and restore of NT
> event
> logs.
>         I know you can run a backup and restore from  Utilities on the NT
> GUI
>         client.
>         What I would like to know is
>
>         1. Is it possible to run this from the command line and therefore
> include it
>         in the scheduled incremental backups.
>
>         2. When you restore it from the GUI you can't specify a date. Is
> there a way
>         that you can do a point in time restore or select the given file
> from a list
>         of inactive backed up files.
>
>         If this is not currently possible, might it be in future
> fixes.(IBM
>         Developers)
>
>         I am also investigating the issue from my side because I'm sure
> you
> could
>         possibly dump the logs elsewhere with NT and then back it up.( I'm
> not a NT
>         guru so any ideas would be appreciated.)
>         Thanx
>         Johan Gouws
>         johang AT hollard.co DOT za
>