Does a "selective" backup count as an absolute/unqualified Incremental
backup?

Regards
Paul


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On
> Behalf Of Richard Sims
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 May 2007 11:22 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Point in time restore problem
>
> On May 22, 2007, at 10:24 PM, Paul Dudley wrote:
>
> > We perform incremental backups each night and occasional archive
> > backups
> > on our mail server (which is linux OS)
> >
> > I am currently performing a point in time restore via the GUI for an
> > account on that mail server. The point in time is last Friday
morning.
> > However the restore seems to be restoring everything that was ever
> > backed up in that account.
> >
> > At the time the account was 500 Mb in size - I am restoring this
> > account
> > to another location on the server and so far it has restored 1.8 Gb
of
> > data.
> >
> > Why is this happening?
> >
> > Why is it restoring files that were deleted or moved months ago?
>
> Paul -
>
> That manifestation is documented in the Admin Guide, under "How IBM
> Tivoli Storage Manager Selects Files for Policy Operations":
> "Incremental
> Backup", where that can happen if an unqualified Incremental backup
> is not done often enough for a file system.  Point-in-time restorals
> can be "interesting".
>
>    Richard Sims




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