Re: tbtape reports wrong archive date.

Thanks Joe: You are absolutely right. I've checked online.log: the last checkpoint before the archive is exactly the the time that tbtape reports. Boris 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 > > : 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) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------