I have also seen this with certain environments with large numbers of
Apple Macintosh files (in addition to certain anti virus products).

Tom

On 7 Mar 2006 at 16:31, Troy Frank wrote:

> The only thing I've personally seen that does that is using tsm compression.  
> For some reason, turning TSM compression on at the netware clients made them 
> start doing full (albeit compressed) backups everyday.  I wonder if virus 
> scanners being run with particular settings would be enough to trick tsm into 
> thinking the file was modified?
>
>
> >>> Chris.McKay AT YCDSB DOT CA 3/7/2006 11:33:03 AM >>>
> We have noticed on our Novell servers, each night a large amount of data
> is getting backed up. From our investigation all \most of this data isn't
> accessed regularly, so in fact it really shouldn't be getting backed up.
> Could someone refresh my memory on the rules TSM uses to determine if a
> file or folder is a candidate for backup, and if these parameters can be
> changed?
>
>
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