I have also seen this with certain environments with large numbers of Apple Macintosh files (in addition to certain anti virus products).
Tom On 7 Mar 2006 at 16:31, Troy Frank wrote: > The only thing I've personally seen that does that is using tsm compression. > For some reason, turning TSM compression on at the netware clients made them > start doing full (albeit compressed) backups everyday. I wonder if virus > scanners being run with particular settings would be enough to trick tsm into > thinking the file was modified? > > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/7/2006 11:33:03 AM >>> > We have noticed on our Novell servers, each night a large amount of data > is getting backed up. From our investigation all \most of this data isn't > accessed regularly, so in fact it really shouldn't be getting backed up. > Could someone refresh my memory on the rules TSM uses to determine if a > file or folder is a candidate for backup, and if these parameters can be > changed? > > > > Confidentiality Notice follows: > > The information in this message (and the documents attached to it, if any) > is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for > the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If > you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution > or any action taken, or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is > prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this message in > error, please delete all electronic copies of this message (and the > documents attached to it, if any), destroy any hard copies you may have > created and notify me immediately by replying to this email. Thank you. > ============================== Tom Anstey Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine University of Oxford Oxford OX3 9DS United Kingdom
