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Hi,
Is there a way to restore earlier owner, group or permissions for a file if that's the only things that's changed?
I created a manifest for a file system containing a list of the directories and files, checksums, sizes, modtimes and attributes. I then ran an 'incr' on the file system. Restored, validated against the manifest -- all okay. Later, I changed the owner of a file, the group of a second file and the permissions of a third file and ran another incr. Now, when I query the backup for the details on those three files it reports them as active, but it shows no inactive versions. However, it does show the Accessed and Inode Changed dates/times for the attribute updates. I'm guessing it doesn't show inactive versions because it didn't actually back them up again, following those attribute changes, it just updated its metadata, right? However, when I restore the file system using a pitdate and pittime just after the first incr, everything checks just dandy against the manifest except the owner, group and permissions respectively for those three files. They were restored with their later attributes, not their earlier ones.
How can I get the original versions of those back with their previous attributes? Does TSM not support this?
Is there a way to restore earlier owner, group or permissions for a file if that's the only things that's changed?
I created a manifest for a file system containing a list of the directories and files, checksums, sizes, modtimes and attributes. I then ran an 'incr' on the file system. Restored, validated against the manifest -- all okay. Later, I changed the owner of a file, the group of a second file and the permissions of a third file and ran another incr. Now, when I query the backup for the details on those three files it reports them as active, but it shows no inactive versions. However, it does show the Accessed and Inode Changed dates/times for the attribute updates. I'm guessing it doesn't show inactive versions because it didn't actually back them up again, following those attribute changes, it just updated its metadata, right? However, when I restore the file system using a pitdate and pittime just after the first incr, everything checks just dandy against the manifest except the owner, group and permissions respectively for those three files. They were restored with their later attributes, not their earlier ones.
How can I get the original versions of those back with their previous attributes? Does TSM not support this?