>I have a client that has a solaris box with 400gigs of data. He want to
>"rsync" the filesystem to another solaris box. Access time, owner,
>permissions will NOT change, but the inode for each file WILL change.
>
>If JUST the inode changes, will this result in TSM backing up the file?
Keith - A good question. TSM tries to be generic where it can, and
does not record the inode number. It stores the file data and
file attributes. Doing an 'rsync', or 'cp -p ...', or the like causes
the ctime attribute of the Unix file to change, while all other attributes
remain the same. An incremental backup will then show "Updating-->" as
TSM updates the ctime-stamp info in the TSM database.
If the size of the file changes, though, the file has to be backed up
afresh.
Richard Sims, BU
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