Dirk Kastens wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have the AIX client 3.1.0.5. The symlink.doc says that when a symbolic link
> that points to a directory is archived, the dir and its contents will be 
> archived
> under the name of the symbolic link.
> I have tried everything but only the link is being archived, neither the dir
> nor its contents. When I retrieve the archive, an empty directory with the 
> name
> of the link is created.
> What's the problem?

You must give the SUBDIR=yes option to the archive command. When you do
it, the whole content of the directory pointed by the link is stored.
That is a problem in my case because some users have symlink that point
to a directory on top of the link, for ex:
/w/ling/data/nmr/prog/source/data --> /w/ling/data
as ADSM archives the contents of the symlinks it stores recursively the
content of /w/ling/data and it never ends until the tapes or the logs
are full !!!
If you find a solution to this please tell me !

Hope this helps.

Sincerely yours,


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