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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 22, 2011

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Change incremental action on change to ACL or xattr

See this idea on ideas.ibm.com

Currently, TSM will back up an entire file if the ACL or extended attributes of the file are changed, rather than updating the metadata. See:
https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21448429

This leads to a lot of duplicate backups, and potentially very large backups of data which hasn't changed (for instance when someone changes the ACL's on a folder tree and all its contents).

So - it would be good to have the ACL's and extended attributes stored as metadata in the database, and only update this in the event of change (rather than back up the whole file again). This should apply to data held on GPFS filesystems.

See also PMR: 24320,019,866

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 12, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Tivoli
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 25, 2011

    Thank you for submitting this enhancement request, we do understand the requirement and the rationale behind it but unfortunately we currently do not plan to implement this enhancement request

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