Updatectime

Supported Clients

This option is valid for AIX® and Linux® clients on GPFS file systems only. The server can also define this option.

Options File

Place this option in the client user options file (dsm.opt).

Parameters

no

The backup-archive client does not check the change time (ctime attribute) during a backup operation unless the GPFS file has ACLs or extended attributes. This value is the default. If the GPFS file has ACLs or extended attributes, then it checks the ctime as the SKIPACL default value is no.

yes

The backup-archive client checks the change time (ctime attribute) during a backup operation. If the ctime attribute changed since the last backup operation, the ctime attribute is updated on the IBM® Storage Protect server. The object is not backed up unless it has either ACLs or extended attributes. The client checks files and directories.