Pittime

Use the pittime option with the pitdate 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. This option is ignored if you do not specify pitdate option.

Use the pittime option with the following commands:

  • delete backup
  • Windows operating systemsquery asr
  • query backup
  • 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
  • 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)
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 diagramPITTime =  time

Parameters

time
Specifies a time on a specified date. If you do not specify a time, the time defaults to 23:59:59. Specify the time in the format you selected with the timeformat option.

When you include the timeformat option in a command, it must precede the fromtime, pittime, and tottime options.

Examples

Mac OS X operating systemsCommand line:
Mac OS X operating systemsdsmc query backup -pitt=06:00:00 -pitd=08/01/2003 "/Volumes/proj5/myproj/*"
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 q b "/fs1/*" -pitt=06:00:00 -pitd=08/01/2003
Windows operating systemsCommand line:
Windows operating systemsdsmc query backup -pitt=06:00:00 -pitd=08/01/2003 c:\myfiles\