On May 19, 2005, at 5:05 PM, David Nicholson wrote:

...The Intel folks tell me they
recently turned on "O/S level Auditing" of the DATA drive on almost
all of
the Windows servers. ...

This is an issue for site management to address. If those wonderful
Windows administrators capriciously made a major change in the way
site servers are operating, and did not communicate it to the
organization, then they are out of control and need some "parental
guidance". Site management should realize the damage they are doing
and take action. It's not just your backup system that it being
affected, but also the performance of all the servers and overload on
the network. An organization has to function in a team manner...as a
cohesive whole. Things go to pot when that doesn't happen, and it
isn't happening at your site.

   Richard Sims