steelem@boulder.Colorado.EDU (STEELE MARK ALLEN) (03/24/90)
I made a hard disk back up with Redux 1.61, then later using SUM I looked at the disk information for same hard disk (internal apple 20meg) and the field 'last back up date' was showing something bogus like 1/1/04 or some- thing like that. Did I do something wrong, or is this field meaningless?? -Mark Steele
thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod) (03/29/90)
In article <18782@boulder.Colorado.EDU> steelem@boulder.Colorado.EDU (STEELE MARK ALLEN) writes: >I made a hard disk back up with Redux 1.61, then later using SUM I looked >at the disk information for same hard disk (internal apple 20meg) and the >field 'last back up date' was showing something bogus like 1/1/04 or some- >thing like that. Did I do something wrong, or is this field meaningless?? You didn't do anything wrong. The last backup date is SUPPOSED to be updated by your backup program. Unfortunately, most of them don't do it. DiskFit is the only backup software I know of that DOES fill in the last backup date correctly (I assume Retrospect probably does too, since it was developed by the same company). This field isn't meaningless; it's just not consistently supported. When your hard disk (any volume, actually) is first initialized, the last backup date field contains a zero. Since Macintosh time starts on January 1, 1904 (for some obscure reason), the zero in this field translates to "the beginning of time": 1/1/04. Other programs (MacEnvy, for example) will tell you that the volume was "Never backed up" when they see that the backup field contains zero. -ken "Don't have a cow, man." -- Bart Simpson -- ========== ....... ============================================= Ken McLeod :. .: UUCP: ...{spsd,zardoz,felix}!dhw68k!thecloud ========== :::.. ..::: INTERNET: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com //// =============================================