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? > > > Thanks, > Alex >