On Wed, 2017-11-22 at 16:08 +0000, Reese, Michael A (Mike) CIV USARMY 21 SIG BDE (US) wrote: > I've been snagged by this on many occasions myself. The worst time was when > 40 TB of data had to get backed up again because a system admin made a simple > permission change at the root directory. > > I agree with you that since TSM now uses DB2 for its database, it should be > able to handle storing permissions for Windows clients in the TSM database, > just like it does for Linux clients. If you're willing to create an RFE, > I'll vote for it!
I would argue that the way it works with Unix and Linux is way worse: only the latest "version" of permissions is stored. Yes, it's nice that something like "chgrp -R foo /large/tree" does not trigger a huge backup, but I almost consider it to be a fundamental design flaw of TSM that you cannot restore old permissions on POSIX platforms.
