Hi,


It would be nice if IBM would tell us are they gonna do this flag or not
and if they will, when.

I'm really waiting for it becouse archiving is useles in our Unix clients
because of the amount of symbolic links in data. E.g. I tried to archive
one ~ 200MB project directory without knowing how links are handled. I
started to wonder how the archive grows over few gigabytes. I found out
how ADSM treates links and stopped the archive process. Our project
directories include links to other projects and this would make an
endless loop to terabytes of data. And I only wanted to archive one small
project directory!

Having the flag would really make our life easier.

Timo Heinonen
Unix Team Manager
Nokia IM
Finland
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> Eric,
>         Currently there is no way to stop ADSM from following the
>         symbolic link in archive mode.  I'm hoping the next PTF release
>         will contain a flag to stop this..
>
>         An alternative to archiving maybe to export the data from the
>         tape library.
>
>         -richard-
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 02:43:33PM +0200, Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM wrote:
> > Hi ADSM-ers!
> > I have posted this question before, but I haven't received any reply,
so
> > I'll give it another try.
> >
> > I have the following problem with the ADSM Sun Solaris client:
> > ADSM archives go into a recursive loop when archiving several
directories
> > containing softlinks.
> > Test case: the directory /usr/X/bin contains a soft link the link
looks like
> > this:
> >
> > $pwd
> > /usr/X/bin
> > $ ls -la xview
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           1 Jan  7 14:12 xview -> .
> >
> > When ADSM runs into this it keeps on going and going down and down.
> > The links are Sun standard, apparently to be compatible with earlier
> > releases
> > of Sun Solaris OS. There are more of such softlinks in the OS, same
thing
> > occurs.
> >
> > We run archives and would appreciate it if we could stop ADSM from
following
> > the links in archive mode.
> >
> > Releases:
> > Server: AIX 3.1.2.20
> > Sun client 3.1.0.6, Solaris 2.6
> >
> > Kindest regards,
> > Eric van Loon
> > KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Timo Heinonen
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