Hi,
I think it's because the archive description is the same (the default is
"Archive Date: mm/dd/")
With the same archive description, the directory can not be copied again
because it can affect already archived data.
Can you try to use a unique description when you run second archive?
Efim
> 16 апр. 2018 г., в 16:47, Loon, Eric van (ITOPT3) - KLM
> написал(а):
>
> Hi guys,
> I noticed something unexpected with creating archives. Let me explain what I
> did:
>
> 1) Under root in the homedir I created a directory called test with two
> subdirs (test1 and test2) and one file (testfile).
>
> 2) The directory test and everything in it is owned by a non-root
> account in Linux.
> When I create an archive with dsmc ar /root/test/ -subdir=yes I notice that
> everything is archived as expected:
>
> Directory--> 4,096 /root/test [Sent]
> Normal File--> 1,032 /root/test/testfile [Sent]
> Directory--> 4,096 /root/test/test1 [Sent]
> Directory--> 4,096 /root/test/test2 [Sent]
> Archive processing of '/root/test/*' finished without failure.
>
> Then I issued the same command again. This time the output is not the same:
>
> Normal File--> 1,032 /root/test/testfile [Sent]
> Archive processing of '/root/test/*' finished without failure.
>
> Only the file is archived, not the directory itself, nor the subdirectories.
> Not a big issue you might think, but it can be when you retrieve the whole
> tree. When the first archive is made yesterday and the second one today, the
> result of a retrieve will be different. A retrieve with
> -fromdate="04/15/2018" will retrieve the file and subdirs with the original
> (non-root) owner. A retrieve with -fromdate="04/16/2018" however will
> retrieve the file with the non-root owner and it will recreate the /root/test
> directory with root as owner. Since the subdirs are not archived on the 16th,
> they are not being retrieved at all.
> I cannot understand why the (sub)directories are not being archived during
> the second archive command.
> Kind regards,
> Eric van Loon
> Air France/KLM Storage Engineering
>
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