Yes, very frustrating.
Had an NT admin recursively change permissions at the
top level of a 50GB+ drive last week ....... took
forever and a frigging day for the thing to finish
backing up.  I've threatened to chop fingers off if it
happens again.

--- "Seay, Paul" <seay_pd AT NAPTHEON DOT COM> wrote:
> I am sure everyone is aware that if the security
> permissions are changed the
> file does not get modified nor its modified date but
> it will be backed up
> again to get the new permissions.
>
> Paul D. Seay, Jr.
> Technical Specialist
> Naptheon Inc.
> 757-688-8180
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Talafous, John G. [mailto:Talafous AT TIMKEN DOT COM]
> Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 10:02 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: Backups of a file when it hasn't
> changed.
>
>
> I too have seen this same phenomenon. Our
> environment is TSM 4.2.1.9 Server
> on AIX 5.1. Clients  where I have seen multiple
> backups of files are on
> Windows NT/2000. It is puzzling because we have
> COPYMODE of MODIFIED in our
> management classes. I have various files on my
> Win2000 workstation that have
> not changed but have been backed up three times.
>
> I have been looking into this and am beginning to
> wonder if a product like
> DISKEEPER that defrags the drive could cause this?
>
> John G. Talafous              IS Technical Principal
> The Timken Company            Global Software
> Support
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>
>
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