Re: Archive attribute keeps getting reset

Your remark "But every night the archive attribute gets turned on"
contains some very useful information - it creates the impression
that the attribute is not just turned on any old time but that this
happens during the night, implying that it's a certain process that
does the damage. If this was my machine then I would track down
the exact time when this happens, by scheduling the batch file
below to run once every five minutes on some machine with access
to these files. When you know what time it happens then you can
try to relate this to events taking place on your server at that time.

@echo off
for /F "tokens=*" %%* in ('attrib \\YourServer\YourShare\YourFile.txt') do
echo %date% %time% %** >> c:\logs.txt

Note that this is one single long line.

Make sure to schedule the batch file under an account that
has appropriate access to \\YourServer\YourShare.


"Roger" <roger@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%233QgsR%23FGHA.2696@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> The date stamp does not change. These are archived files that in some
cases
> haven't been modified since 1998. But every night the archive attribute
> gets turned on.
>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:u0iAGY8FGHA.2300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > "Roger" <roger@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:OcQw7N8FGHA.1452@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> I have a backup routine that backs up files if the archive attribute is
> > set
> >> and clears the attribute. This is done using Robocopy switches. It
> >> works
> >> great for all my servers except for one, a 2000 server running IIS. I
> > have
> >> verified that the backup works correctly, clearing the archive
attribute,
> >> but each time when I check the next day the archive attribute is set to
> >> archive again, even though the file has not changed. This is happening
> >> on
> > a
> >> lot of files, so it is making my backups much larger than I want. Does
> >> anyone have any ideas? Is this a known problem with 2000/IIS/Indexing,
> >> or
> >> something else? Thanks!
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I would start by examining the date stamp of the affected files.
> >
> >
>
>


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