hi,
my ndmp incremental backup did a full backup. this was on the day after i converted the homedir qtree from unix style to ntfs and wrote acls for every dir and file. would this have caused dump to backup everything?
ontap 6.1.1r2p1d17
Yes, I imagine changing an ACL changes the "ctime" of a file and incremental dumps look at both mtime and ctime when deciding which files to include. You can configure NDMP to ignore ctime, but that has problems of its own.
I would argue that this is correct behavior because all your new ACLs got dumped. Now if you restore a file, you'll get back the file data and the ACL, too.
If your incrementals are based off a dump taken before you wrote all the ACLs, then they will continue to be big. You probably want to do a new full dump.
Steve Losen scl@virginia.edu phone: 434-924-0640
University of Virginia ITC Unix Support