Steve,

Yes you are right it is a Solaris box but the same behavior is exhibited on
AIX too.  Also v2 and V3 clients produce the same results.  I initially
thought it was a symlink problem but I have set up a test directory
structure on my AIX box in /home and  copied some files with the same names
into multiple directories.  No symbolic links were in use anywhere.
Unfortunately archive and selective backup both sent all files to the ADSM
server.

Still confused.

Richard.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven P Roder [SMTP:tkssteve AT REXX.ACSU.BUFFALO DOT EDU]
> Sent: 28 January 2000 12:24
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Strange archive behaviour with -subdir=yes
>
> > The following results are produced:
> >
> > Archiving-->             1,544 /etc/hosts . Sent
> > Archiving-->               286 /etc/inet/hosts . Sent
> > Archiving-->                14 /etc/net/ticlts/hosts . Sent
> > Archiving-->                14 /etc/net/ticots/hosts . Sent
> > Archiving-->                14 /etc/net/ticotsord/hosts . Sent
> > Archive processing of '/etc/hosts' finished with 0 failures.
> > Total number of objects inspected:       45
> > Total number of objects archived:         5
> > Total number of objects updated:          0
> > Total number of objects rebound:          0
> > Total number of objects deleted:          0
> > Total number of objects failed:           0
> > Total number of bytes transferred:    1,175
> > Average file size:                      381
> > Compression percent reduction:        39.40%
> > Elapsed processing time:            0:00:01
> >
> > I am very surprised to see that /etc/inet/hosts and others are archived
> too,
> > when I have specifically specified a single filename "/etc/hosts" in the
> > archive command.
>
> You do not say what unix system you are running, but my guess would be
> Solaris.  If you look, /etc/hosts is a symlink to /etc/inet/hosts.  You
> told it -subdir=yes, and by default, archive follows symlinks, unlike
> backup, which does not.  If the user only wants to backup the host file,
> then try:
>
> dsmc arc /etc/inet/hosts -desc="test"
>
> On one of my Solaris systems:
>
> (7:22am)[flotsam]{/usr/local/bin}> ls -al /etc/hosts
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root           12 Dec 19  1997 /etc/hosts -> ./inet/hosts
> (7:22am)[flotsam]{/usr/local/bin}> ls -al /etc/inet/hosts
> -r--r--r--   1 root         5162 Dec 27 13:30 /etc/inet/hosts
>
>
> Steve Roder
> VM Systems Programmer
> UNIX Systems Administrator (Solaris and AIX)
> ADSM Administrator
> (tkssteve AT buffalo DOT edu | (716)645-3564 |
> http://ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu/~tkssteve)


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