Agreed.  We are in the middle of a massive reorganization of the university
AD structure and all Windows servers are being moved, thus causing huge,
duplicate backups (over 80TB on last count) especially with our
CIFS/directory structure specific backups and they want to keep the
duplicates for 60-days, our RETO retention.  We had to buy more tapes.

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Prather, Wanda <Wanda.Prather AT icfi DOT com>
wrote:

> Also an interesting contradiction, since in Windows this type of change
> *does* trigger a new backup.
> Massive ones.  Which is then its own problem.
>
>
> Wanda Prather
> TSM Consultant
> ICF International Enterprise and Cybersecurity Systems Division
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of
> Zoltan Forray
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 1:22 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Linux permissions not restored
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Loon, EJ van (ITOPT3) - KLM <
> Eric-van.Loon AT klm DOT com> wrote:
>
> > TSM not suitable for rolling back security errors.
> >
>
> Agreed 100%
>
>
> > Personally if find this a flaw of the product...
> >
>
> Exactly what my Linux OS person said.  We are going to have to completely
> rebuild the box due to the user (yes, we are going to revoke sudo/root
> privileges)  doing a "chown -R <someuser> / ".  Eventhough he was able to
> fix a lot of the attributes using rpm, there will always be the lingering
> question of what was missed and how many more hours will be wasted in the
> future fixing more permissions as they are found....
>
>
>
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