Re: tbtape reports wrong archive date.

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 : i would think that running it through cron you have a TZ problem, or : whatever : the time zone variable is on your machine. i believe that cron(1m) : specifically : states that you have to deal with the TZ stuff, but i'm not sure where : that <snip> 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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------