Re: strange problem - missing file on server

Thanks Richard,

I did use the dsmc yesterday also, and it was not there.  But I just check
again and it did get backed up last night.  I'm now thinking that someone
moved this file into this directory yesterday, but it retained its ld date
stamp...   I'll have to ask where it came from.

Regards
Robin


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Robin -

First, do 'dsmc q inclexcl' to see if the file is excluded from play.

Second: Don't trust the product GUIs - there's always something wrong
with them.
The GUIs are provided for novice users.  Experienced systems people
avoid them.
Do 'dsmc q backup -inactive /PathTo/bkupscripts' to really verify.

    Richard Sims

On Jun 30, 2005, at 11:10 AM, Robin Sharpe wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Has anyone run into this situation before?....
>
> I was asked to restore a single file on a Unix (HP-UX 11i) server.
> So I
> fired up the web client, looked in the specified directory, no
> file, not
> active or inactive.  The file does exist on the client, with a date
> stamp
> of Jan 28 2003, and permissions rwxr-x---.  There are other files
> in the
> directory with same permissions and old (even older) date stamps,
> that do
> exist on the server.  We keep logs of our daily backups, so I cthe
> most
> recent one, which was run earlier the same day (yesterday)... the
> directory
> was backed up, but the file was not.  The file's name is
> "bkupscripts"...
> nothing weird, no special characters or backspaces in the name....
> a 'find
> . -name bkupscripts' command does find the file, as does a 'ls -l'
> command.
>
> Client level is 5.2.0.0, Server is 5.2.4.2 (although client reports
> it as
> 5.2.3.2... don't know why)
> TSM Server is also HP-UX 11i.
>
> Robin Sharpe
> Berlex Labs
>