Pitdate

Use the pitdate option with the pittime option to establish a point in time to display or restore the latest version of your backups.

Files that were backed up on or before the date and time you specify, and which were not deleted before the date and time you specify, are processed. Backup versions that you create after this date and time are ignored.

Use the pitdate option with the following commands:

  • delete backup
  • Windows operating systemsquery asr
  • query backup
  • query group
  • Windows operating systemsOracle Solaris operating systemsLinux operating systemsAIX operating systemsquery image
  • Windows operating systemsquery nas
  • Windows operating systemsquery systemstate
  • Windows operating systemsquery vm (vmbackuptype=fullvm and vmbackuptype=hypervfull)
  • restore
  • Mac OS X operating systemsWindows operating systemsOracle Solaris operating systemsLinux operating systemsAIX operating systemsrestore group
  • Windows operating systemsOracle Solaris operating systemsLinux operating systemsAIX operating systemsrestore image
  • Mac OS X operating systemsWindows operating systemsOracle Solaris operating systemsLinux operating systemsAIX operating systemsrestore nas
  • Windows operating systemsrestore vm (vmbackuptype=fullvm and vmbackuptype=hypervfull)

When pitdate is used, the inactive and latest options are implicit.

Mac OS X operating systemsWindows operating systemsOracle Solaris operating systemsLinux operating systemsAIX operating systems

Supported Clients

This option is valid for all clients. The IBM Spectrum® Protect API does not support this option.

Syntax

Read syntax diagramSkip visual syntax diagramPITDate =  date

Parameters

date
Specifies the appropriate date. Enter the date in the format you selected with the dateformat option.

When you include dateformat with a command, it must precede the fromdate, pitdate, and todate options.

Examples

Mac OS X operating systemsCommand line:
Mac OS X operating systemsdsmc restore "/Volumes/proj4/myproj/*" -sub=y -pitdate=08/01/2003 -pittime=06:00:00
Mac OS X operating systemsOracle Solaris operating systemsLinux operating systemsAIX operating systemsCommand line:
Mac OS X operating systemsOracle Solaris operating systemsLinux operating systemsAIX operating systemsdsmc restore "/fs1/*" -sub=y -pitdate=08/01/2003 -pittime=06:00:00
Windows operating systemsCommand line:
Windows operating systemsdsmc restore -pitdate=08/01/2003 c:\myfiles\