Well my goal is to run a differential on the active file system monday through friday. Then on Monday morning at 12:05 am do a full on weekly.0. Then I need to reset the archive bits on the active file system so that the differential Monday night will backup the proper data.
-----Original Message----- From: Benn, Paul [mailto:paul.benn@netapp.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 12:02 PM To: Steve Evans Subject: RE: Reset Archive Bits don't know specifically what you're trying to achieve but perhaps you could create a script to run on the Windows machine once a week that might do what you want. you'd need to leverage rsh and manually create and delete the weekly snapshot. something like: REM delete the snapshot created the week before rsh [filer's host name] [-l username] snap delete [snapshot name] REM reset the archive bits attrib -a /s REM create a snapshot that you want to backup from rsh [filer's host name] [-l username] snap create [snapshot name] REM run the backup ntbackup [options]
-----Original Message----- From: Steve Evans [mailto:sevans@foundation.sdsu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 11:48 AM To: Benn, Paul Subject: RE: Reset Archive Bits Not if I backup the snapshot though right? Steve Evans Computing Services (619) 594-0653
-----Original Message----- From: Benn, Paul [mailto:paul.benn@netapp.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 11:20 AM To: Steve Evans; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Reset Archive Bits by the way, a "full" backup (assuming you do that once a week) should clear the archive bit as well. regards, Paul Benn Network Appliance
-----Original Message----- From: Steve Evans [mailto:sevans@foundation.sdsu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 10:13 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Reset Archive Bits I'm looking at running differentials during the week and then backing up weekly.0 Monday morning at 12:05. The problem is I need a way to reset all the archive bits right before that. How can I do this? By the way cifs only environment. Steve Evans Computing Services (619) 594-0653