When is archive bit set

URL Name. Product Area. Description: When performing a backup with custom schedule, we have the option to perform a Full backup without changing the Archive Bit and a Full backup which clears the Archive Bit. Solution Archive Bit is a file attribute. Properties Article Created Date. Created By.

If you want to manually change it, you can do it with the help of the attrib commands I need to change it automatically to let a Backup Application to make a copy of all content of the renamed folder. Is it possible? The problem is, when we get a restore request from a user, in a Backup App I see the empty folder only without any files. And of course a user doesn't remember the previous name of the folder if it was renamed many weeks ago.

Fortunately we use DatAdvantage to track such changes, but it doesn't help always Might have to check with the backup vendor. Sounds good, if above repies are useful, please mark them as answers.

Really appreciated your understanding! Best Regards, Daniel Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help. Tuesday, October 1, AM. So perhaps what they should be using is a combination of the archive bit and modification time. If either has been changed, the file should be included in an incremental backup.

When backing up Unix systems, there is no archive bit, so backup applications use either mtime when the contents of the file were last changed or ctime when the attributes of the file were last changed. When backing up Windows systems, different backup applications use the archive bit differently. NetWorker includes the archive bit as one of the things it checks to determine if a file needs to be backed up, but it also checks mtime and ctime, as well.

NetBackup uses the archive bit for files and ctime for directories, but allows you to use mtime for files. Tivoli TSM does not use the archive bit at all. Based on what I'm saying here about the archive bit, that's not a bad thing. For this reason, many modern programs use their own backup system, such as a journal of backed up files. Advanced backup systems may also support incremental backups, which back up multiple versions of a file over time. NOTE: Since archive bits are used exclusively for backup purposes, they are sometimes called "backup bits.

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