On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 01:57:44PM -0400, David E Ehresman wrote: > I have a customer who is saying they backed up files on a linux box, > changed ownership of the files, backed them up again. Then he restored > the original versions of the file but got the changed ownership > assoicated with the later backup.
Your customer is right. This behaviour is by design (for the Unix clients) and documented: "If /only/ the following items change, they are updated without causing the entire file to be backed up to the server: * File owner * File permissions * Last access time * Inode * Group ID" Yes, this means you've potentially got big problems when a backup runs after you've issued an erroneous chmod -R. You cannot restore the correct permissions, because TSM simply doesn't have them anymore. (Perhaps on inactive versions, but then you'd be restoring old data.) Regards, -- Jurjen Oskam Savage's Law of Expediency: You want it bad, you'll get it bad.