When you 'copied' the directory, did the DATE of the directory change?? Thats probably why it didn't back anything new up..
And thats why incrbydates shouldnt be relied upon always - should always do normal incremental backups as well -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mehdi Salehi Sent: Thursday, 30 April 2009 5:30 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] best backup method for millions of small files? Hi, I enabled the journal service for drive F: of a test windows-based TSM client. Here is the interesting test results: 1- total filesystem size:14GB 2- used space: 370MB (pdf, doc, exe and ... other ordinary files) 3- I enabled journal 4- snapshot image backup was successful 5- the .jbbdb file in journal directory got populated 6- I copies a directory from c: for f: 7- the size of .jbbdb file changed (means journal service is working) 8- I performed a incremental-by-date for image backup 9- NOTHING was backuped! Do you have any explanation for this? Regards, Mehdi <html> <body> <font face="arial" color=#808080 size="-2"><img alt="Santos Logo" src="http://www.santos.com/library/logo.gif";> <br>Santos Ltd A.B.N. 80 007 550 923<br> Disclaimer: The information contained in this email is intended only for the use of the person(s) to whom it is addressed and may be confidential or contain privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any perusal, use, distribution, copying or disclosure is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please immediately advise us by return email and delete the email without making a copy.</font> <font face="arial" color=#008000 size="-2">Please consider the environment before printing this email</font> </body> </html>
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