>I am not familiar with the Windows environment, but recently the group
>turned file auditing on.  I have researched this topic in the manual and it
>appears that if you change the ACLs or any attribute of the file, then it
>will backed up.  Is there a way that if the ACLs have been changed, but the
>file hasn't been modified, that the file can be skipped for backup?

We hashed this basic topic in February ("NTFS permission changes").
Such attributes are intrinsic to the file, and so the file gets backed up
if the attributes change.  The only possible mitigation is Adaptive Subfile
Backup.

  Richard Sims   http://people.bu.edu/rbs