SAV not picking up fresh file in IFS for incremental backup

Hello,

lately I changed my backup strategy to have included QDLS, and IFS into my incremental dailies. (I recently have learned that there is a CHGPERIOD(*LASTSAVE) parameter to be used with SAVDLO, and SAV.) I'm using V4R5 on my venerable 150, if this is relevant.

On April 10 I added a file (a picture) into my web tree in /QOpenSys, and also changed the referring html page.

The next day, both weren't listed in the spool file resulting from OUTPUT(*PRINT). I wonder why that is. I expect new and/or changed files to be included with the save.

Both files have a "changed" timestamp of both file attributes, and file data resulting from the upload on April 10. The last Save 21 was on April 3. I could not see any "last saved" shown on the attributes when navigating with WRKLNK, using option 8

I'm using the save command as follows:

SAV DEV('/QSYS.LIB/TAP01.DEVD') OBJ(('/*') ('/QDLS' *OMIT) ('/QFileSvr.400' *OMIT) ('/QIBM/UserData/HTTPSVR/reports' *OMIT) ('/QNTC' *OMIT) ('/QOpenSys/var/log/*' *OMIT) ('/QSYS.LIB' *OMIT)) OUTPUT(*PRINT) EXPDATE(&EXPDATE) ENDOPT(*LEAVE) CHGPERIOD(*LASTSAVE) UPDHST(*YES)

Any ideas about this — to me — unexpected behavior?

Note: &EXPDATE is a date I'm calculating in the CL code before to make the content expire after 27 days.

Note 2: I encountered that I needed to use ('/QDLS' *OMIT) instead of ('/QDLS/*' *OMIT). I thought it to be a good idea to keep the empty folder intact in IFS so the file system could be mounted after a restore. Sav wasn't happy about that and rejected the entire command line. :-) Same goes for /QFileSvr.400, /QNTC, and /QSYS.LIB.

:wq! PoC