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The Question is:
We are trying to do a "bounded" incremental Backup. What this means is that we
want to backup all files since the last backup (/SINCE=BACKUP) but not to the
current date but up to a specified date (/BEFORE="date").
In the 'traditional' VMS Backup world the /BEFORE clause is ignored when you
apply the /SINCE=BACKUP qualifier - all files since the last backup are
captured. I know you can do a BACKUP/SINCE="date"/BEFORE="date" and that
works as expected, but we don't
want to extrapolate or guess the last backup date!
I was playing with the /NOINCREMENTAL qualifier, which is new to V7.2. For
whatever reason it ***appears*** to recognize the /BEFORE="date" qualifier in
conjunction with the /SINCE=BACKUP qualifier - it doesn't back up any files
modified from the /BEFORE
date to today.
My question to the wizard is this: does the /NOINCREMENTAL qualifier give me
the "bounded" backup that I desire, or am I just seeing a fluke that just
happens to match up to my date range?
Personally I'm rather disappointed that VMS Backup does 'selective'
determination as to whether it ignores the /BEFORE qualifier or not.
The Answer is :
BACKUP /NOINCREMENTAL is not applicable here.
The OpenVMS Wizard recommends using the /BEFORE and /SINCE combination,
or (better) simply using a periodic schedule of /RECORD and /SINCE=BACKUP
passes. Remember, you will want to be able to reassemble (restore) your
BACKUP, and /RECORD and /SINCE=BACKUP (standard incremental BACKUP) can
do this for you quite easily.
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