Not sure if you're administering permissions to files/folders, by users
or groups, but if you're making that many changes to permissions and
it's causing backup problems here's what I'd do.

Looking at it from a windows perspective...
Say if you had a folder called "folder1", create active directory groups
called "folder1-readonly"and "folder1-write" and assign those
permissions to the folder (catch22 is that applying the group
permissions to the folders the 1st time will reset the archive bit, just
do it on the day the full backup runs, before the backup).  Then just
add users into the groups through active directory, once you've
initially applied the permissions to the folders you won't have to mess
with them again.  Just administer the group membership through AD.

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Davina Treiber
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:05 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Changing Security on Files/Folders Causes Large
Backups

tkutil wrote:
> I've noticed that every time I change security settings on
files/folders on my file servers Networker sees that as being modified
and then includes that file in the backup. Is that standard/normal? I
would prefer to not have that happen since I'm oftern changing security
settings on large files stores.
> 

If this didn't happen then people would be complaining. I think that
people expect to be able to restore their data with the correct security
settings, and in order to do that they need to be backed up.

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