Hi Justin,
It is true that the list did not help at the time...and I forgot to post
my solution.
The issue was:
- Symlinks restored without the data they pointed to will not be
restored. It is NBU standard stuff, unfortunately. I have asked for an
enhancement with Veritas. You should add your vote, as they say they do
NOT need it...even though modern day GNU tar has such an option. The
reason, I think, is so that they can sell you their FlashBackUp product,
which DOES dereference the symlinks...but forces one into RAW backups.
Luckily they did add in an INCR backup type with Flashbackup.
SOLUTION:
BUY this FlashBackUp product. It definately DOES work. However, like
other RAW backups, it backs up the ENTIRE partition even if EMPTY.
There are also some *small* gotchas with FlashBackup, and the setup in
our case was non-trivial. BUT, after weeks and weeks of hair pulling, it
is doing what we want and restores are zipping along fine, including our
copious symlinks.
The thing FlashBackUp does is create an inode map, and when restoring
uses that to do the de-referencing.
Hope you enjoy this data as much as we did!
Cheers!
--Chris
>>From CJManders at lbl.gov Sun Feb 12 16:13:42 2006
>From: CJManders at lbl.gov (Christopher Jay Manders)
>Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 08:13:42 -0800
>Subject: [Veritas-bu] Is GNU tar --dereference option available?
>Message-ID: <43EF5EB6.1010705 at lbl.gov>
>
>Hi,
>
>So, we want to actually back up any data that is contained in symbolic
>linked material on one set of systems.
>If I were to use GNU tar I would specify the '--dereference' option.
>
>Anyone know whether this is supported, or will be, in NBU?
>
>
>TIA!
>
>--Chris
>
>
>Nobody answered him :(
>
>Justin.
>
>On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
>
>
>>I have a directory with 10 symlinks:
>>
>>$ ls
>>1 -> /dir/1
>>2 -> /dir/2
>>..
>>10 -> /dir/10
>>
>>I went through all of the 5.1 manuals but did not find anyway for NetBackup
>>to de-reference symbolic links to their destinations, am I missing something
>>here or is it not supported?
>>
>>Justin.
>>
>>
>>
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