On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 at 1:19pm, Jon LaBadie wrote

> On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 11:01:52AM -0400, LaValley, Brian E wrote:
> > Can someone please help me get to the bottom of this issue?  I have Amanda
> > 2.4.4p2 on a Fedora Core 3 machine which is the tape server.  It has no
> > trouble backing up itself and other Linux machines.  The trouble comes with
> > a Sun Solaris 8 client which never completes its estimate. I tried to keep
> > increasing the etimeout value, but I am at 29600 and am wondering how far I
> > should go?  Is there some other part I should be looking at? Thank you.
> > 
> Does gnutar follow, and backup symbolic links.  I wonder if some of these
> monster estimates might be due to circular references.

I'm fairly certain it backs them up as links, not as the targest 
themselves.  It'd be easy to test, though...

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University