belrick AT home DOT com wrote:
#Philosophy and semantics aside, the practical reality is that ADSM's treatment
#of symbolic links in archives is in the least inflexible (why not allow the
#option to preserve the link as a link?) and at the most dangerous.
#Witness the very fact that the Web SMIT fileset on AIX 4.3.1 contains a
circular
#link (as is allowed by the filesystem) and the fact that ADSM archive decends
#ad infinitum.

I (and judging by the response quite a few others) agree fully that the current
symlink
handling is pathetic. For example, one of the boxes I administer is being used
for Y2K
testing, and the users want to 'snapshot' the work at intervals, (usually just
after a series
of tests are complete). At the moment my archive script first tar-archives and
removes all
links, then does the ADSM archve, then finally untars the links and removes the
tar archive.
I don't thing anyone out there would agree that this is a good way to HAVE to
do things!

Hello ADSM-development .... I shouldn't have to do this, please fix this
a.s.a.p. !!

#And speaking of 'the way it should work' (in my humble opinion), why can't we
have
#the option of crossing filesystem boundaries?  I respect that when I archive
#'/* -subdir=yes' I only get stuff in the root filesystem, but wouldn't it be
nice
#be able to say '/* -subdir=yes -crossfsboundary=yes' and have it archive the
#entire system?  Or '/application/* -subdir=yes -crossfsboundary=yes' and have
it
#archive all the data in the filesystems /application/home, /application/db,
#/application/exports, etc.

Funnily enough, I came across last week a situation where the fact that the
restore already
does this is bad news. A Solaris upgrade went bad big-time and we have to
rebuild the system.
Unfortunately you can't just dsmc restore "/*" to get the root filesystem back,
since it restores
everything! (Luckily the data areas were untouched so I wanted to keep them) I
know if the GUI
client is available - which it was, although only the V2 one - this isn't
*much* of a hardship.

Bob Cross.

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