This document describes the ATTRIB File Attribute Manipulation
Utility. This utility is unlicensed and unsupported.
Revision/Update Information: This is a new manual.
Operating System and Version: MS-DOS* version 2.10 or later.
Software Version: ATTRIB version 1.0
NOT NOT NOTSupport: THIS SOFTWARE IS NOT SUPPORTED BY
DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION.
Direct Questions and Comments To: Brian Hetrick
ZKO1-3/J10
Digital Equipment Corporation
110 Spit Brook Road
Nashua NH 03062-2698
USA
* MS-DOS is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
Digital Equipment Corporation Maynard Massachusetts
February 1987
The information in this document is subject to change without notice
and should not be construed as a commitment by Digital Equipment
Corporation. Digital Equipment Corporation assumes no responsibility
for any errors that may appear in this document.
The software described in this document is unlicensed and unsupported.
Digital Equipment Corporation assumes no responsibility for the use orDigital Equipment Corporation assumes no responsibility for the use orDigital Equipment Corporation assumes no responsibility for the use orDigital Equipment Corporation assumes no responsibility for the use or
reliability of this softwarereliability of this softwarereliability of this softwarereliability of this software. This software is provided "as is,"
without any warranty of any kind, express or implied. Digital
Equipment Corporation will not be liable in any event for any damages
including any loss of data, profit, or savings, claims against the
user by any other party, or any other incidental or consequential
damages arising out of the use of, or inability to use, this software,
even if Digital Equipment Corporation is advised of the possibility of
such damage.
This documentation and the software it describes have been placed into
the public domain by Digital Equipment Corporation.
The following are trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation:
DEC MASSBUS RSX VAX
DECmate PDP RT VAXcluster
DECnet P/OS ULTRIX VAXmate
DECUS Professional ULTRIX-32 VMS
DECwriter Rainbow ULTRIX-32M VT
DIBOL RSTS UNIBUS Work Processor
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
| | | | | | | |
|d|i|g|i|t|a|l|
|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|
Contents Contents Contents Contents
Page
Preface v
Intended Audience v
Structure of This Document v
Associated Documents v
Conventions Used in This Document v
Acknowledgments vi
Summary 1
Format 1
Command Qualifiers 1
Command Parameters 1
Usage 1
Invoking 1
Exiting 1
Directing Output 2
Description 3
Invoking the File Attribute Manipulation Utility 3
Command Parameters 3
Display of File Names and Attributes 5
Command Qualifiers 6
Restrictions 6
Command Qualifiers 7
/HELP Command Qualifier 7
Format 7
Description 7
Example 7
/LOG Command Qualifier 8
Format 8
Description 8
Example 8
/RESET Command Qualifier 9
Format 9
Description 9
Example 10
/SET Command Qualifier 11
Format 11
Description 11
Example 12
Examples 13
Avoiding Full Backup After Restore 13
Avoiding Full Backup After Failed Incremental Backup 13
will reset the archive attribute of all files in the current
directory of the current drive, making these files ineligible for
future incremental backups until their contents are changed.
Avoiding Full Backup After Failed Incremental BackupAvoiding Full Backup After Failed Incremental BackupAvoiding Full Backup After Failed Incremental BackupAvoiding Full Backup After Failed Incremental Backup
Many file backup and restore utilities permit incremental
backups, where only files having the archive attribute are copied
from the disk being backed up to the backup media. Some of these
utilities remove the archive attribute from files as the files
are copied to the backup media, before it is known whether the
backup as a whole is successful. With such utilities, if the
backup process fails before completion, the files may be
unrecoverable from the backup media created by the failed backup
process. Even after the cause of the backup utility's failure
has been removed, an incremental backup will not back up the
files whose archive attributes were removed by the failed backup
process.
You can use the File Attribute Manipulation Utility to set the
archive attribute of the files whose archive attribute has been
removed by a failed incremental backup. The command: