Perhaps. But what happens when you restore files without the latest ACLs? They're set for a reason, and to not restore the entire file's contents strikes me as rather worthless.
-- Mark Stapleton System engineer, CDW -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rolf Meyer Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 3:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backup of ownership and ACLs Hello I think, there's an option called SKIPACLUPDATCHECK, which can be used to prevent incr backups just because of changing ACL-infos. Give it a try. Rolf Meyer Storage Consultant PROFI Engineering Systems AGAlexander Födisch schrieb: > Hi all, > > if we change the ownership (chmod/chgrp) or the ACLs of files/folders on > our GPFS-filesystem, all affected > data will be backed up again from TSM because the ctime was changed - > same behaviour on a XFS filesystem. > We often have to change recursively the ACLs of a 15TB-folder and so > this 15TB are backup up nearly daily... > I understand the necessity of backing up metadata as ownership or ACLs > :) But is there an other possibility? > > Can we backup just the metadata of changed files instead of all the > data? Depends this on the filesystem? No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.552 / Virus Database: 270.10.24/1954 - Release Date: 15-Feb-09 6:09 PM
