On Wed, 2 May 2007, Jeff Lightner wrote:

> GNU tar, find and cpio all have ways to "follow" symbolic links to get
> the real files to which they point.  However I don't know of a way to
> tell a NBU policy to use that option for the modified GNU tar it uses
> for backups.  (You could do it at command line but then it would not be
> a "netbackup" backup - just a tar.)
>
> The help for 5.1 MP4 says of symbolic links that it backs up the link
> only and not the file to which it points.  It goes on to say to restore
> the file to which the symbolic link restores you must actually restore
> that file as well.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Justin
> Piszcz
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 10:45 AM
> To: NB List Mail
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Question: Backup what the symlink points to?
>
> This concerns UNIX:
>
> I need to look this up but was wondering if anyone knew off the top of
> their head how to make NetBackup backup what a symlink points to or if
> that is even possible?
>
> I know about the cross-link option but that concerns mounts and
> filesystems, not sym-links.
>
> Justin.
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Thanks for the responses, this was my initial finding as well!

Justin.