I'm running FileMaker Server 16.0.4 on MacOS 10.13.4. Under Schedules, FileMaker Server is set up to make daily backps of all hosted databases. It makes those backups as scheduled, but assigns the incorrect permissions to the backup files.
For example, a hosted database will have these permissions:
Owner[me] Read & Write
Group fmsadmin Read & Write
Everyone No Access
But the backed up version of that same database will have these permissions:
Owner fmserver Read & Write
Group fmsadmin Read & Write
Everyone Read Only
The permissions on the backup folder are Everyone No Access, so it's not coming from there. I also tried setting a umask 006 on the server, but that didn't fix the Everyone permission.
Does anyone know how to make FileMaker Server respect permissions when backing up files? (The big problem is its granting everyone read access; changing the owner to fmserver is no big deal.)
You shouldn't have to worry about it because you're not supposed to share the backup folders and especially not to people that shouldn't have read access to it. If you need the backup files somewhere where you can share them from, use an OS-level script that runs after the backup to manipulate the files but you have to leave the FMS backup folders alone. Otherwise you may interfere with FMS cleaning up after itself as it rotates the backup files and folders.