Hi all,

if we change the ownership (chmod/chgrp) or the ACLs of files/folders on our 
GPFS-filesystem, all affected
data will be backed up again from TSM because the ctime was changed - same 
behaviour on a XFS filesystem.
We often have to change recursively the ACLs of a 15TB-folder and so this 15TB 
are backup up nearly daily...
I understand the necessity of backing up metadata as ownership or ACLs :) But 
is there an other possibility?

Can we backup just the metadata of changed files instead of all the data? 
Depends this on the filesystem?


Thanks,
Alex