Thanks Andy,

We've tried to get an answer to this question since we first put in
TSM (3rd qtr last year), but couldn't find an answer, including from
support.

Your example exactly describes our situation, but, our systems don't
appear to act like your describing.

We have a domain called "AIX" with the following mgt classes:

        vde     rev     vdd     rto
aix     14      14      14      14   (dflt)
aix1m   32      32      32      32
aix2m   62      62      62      62
aixorac 2       1       1       90   (oracle backups)

All our directories go into the last class aixorac with the largest
RetainOnlyVersion, just as you describe.  When I fire up the gui,
changed the date to point back a month, point to a filespace that
is bound to aix2m (2 month PIT), and go to a directory that changes
every day - every thing looks OK!!!!!  The directory shows up in the
gui with all it's files.  I don't seem to be able to duplicate the
situation you describe!

We've wondered about this directory issues, but didn't think there
was a problem given that it appeared to be working.  I fugured it
created the directory from the files that exist in it.

Any thoughts?

Rick




On 7 Mar 2001, at 7:58, Andy Raibeck wrote:
> Day 1: File C:\MyDir\MyFile.txt is backed up. MyDir is bound to CLASS1 and
> MyFile.txt is bound to CLASS2.
>
> Day2: File C:\MyDir\MyFile.txt is changed. The MyDir directory is also
> changed. When the backup runs, MyDir will be backed up. Because only 1
> version is kept, the version that was created on Day 1 is deleted.
> MyFile.txt is also backed up and bound to CLASS2. There are now 2 versions
> of MyFile.txt.
>
> Now you need to do a PIT restore back to Day 1. However, since there is
> only one backup version of MyDir, created on Day 2, it will not be
> displayed in the GUI when you PIT criteria specifies Day 1.