Hello Mark, yes, you're right. One of my customers used it because his application changes file attributes without any influence to the file content (it was a video cms) and the GPFS/HSM environment would not work correct without this option.
So, you have to decide for yourself. Greetings Rolf Meyer Mark Stapleton schrieb: > 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 >
