You seem to be under the false impression that permissions are stored
in TSM independent of the object data. Not. This is why when file
system object attributes are changed, the object itself gets backed
up again. (See backup candidate criteria details in the client
manual.) Object restoral gets the attributes of the object.
Furthermore, in Unix, such attributes are in the inode, not in the
directory. Take a look at your operating system's dirent.h header
file to realize how paltry Unix directory information is.

   Richard Sims

On Jan 27, 2006, at 3:45 AM, Jurjen Oskam wrote:

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 08:42:01AM -0700, Andrew Raibeck wrote:

Is there also a way to use tsm to restore the file permissions
without
doing a restore of all files?

No.

Suppose I recursively mess up the permissions of a directory, and that
directory is then backed up as part of e.g. "dsmc i". When I then
rm -rf the directory on the host and restore it using a point in time
restore from *before* the chmod, which permissions will the
restored files
have? (This is assuming a large enough "retver" c.s. parameter)