Re: tbtape reports wrong archive date.

jlumbley@netcom.com (Joe Lumbley) wrote: >Mickey Mestel (mickm@infogain.com) wrote: >: boris, >: > Recently I've noticed that my archive utility reports wrong time or even >: > date of the archive done. I run tbtape -s from cron doing backup at >: > night and redirecting the output msgs to a file. The system starts >: > backup at 4:30 am through cron but in the tbtape reports 3:30 am (see >The date/time of the archive is actually the date/time of the last >checkpoint prior to the archive. Try running a checkpoint right before >the archive and you'll find that the date is correct. >Joe >-- >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Joe Lumbley(jlumbley@netcom.com) >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- According to the V5 manual tbtape -s is supposed to force a checkpoint (page 4-22). It obviously does not. pvw ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul van Wegen Esq. | EMail: vanwegen@firststate.com.au First State Computing Pty. Ltd. | Phone: 061 2 2569887 Sydney. Australia. | Fax: 061 2 2569727 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------