Read the Unix client "user's guide" about -Archsymlinkasfile option... you
might (likely) want to change your use to the non-default behavior, "No".

Don France
Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant
Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390
San Jose, Ca
(408) 257-3037
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-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Michael Cleary
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 2:28 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: TSM and AIX Links


Greetings,

I am somewhat new to AIX and TSM and I have a question about TSM and
AIX Links.

I have a file that is a link that points to the directory that it
resides in.  It looks like this:

root:/udb/prod/sqllib> ls -l

lrwxrwxrwx 1 udbprod udbsadm 1 Oct 11 11:01 .ftok -> .

When I run an AIX find command, it finds one .ftok file.  However,
when I run a TSM archive, it appears to be backing up the directory
in question, following the link to the same directory and backing it
up again.  The archive did this many times, but at some point, it
exited this loop and finished with no errors.

Questions:

1)  Is TSM functioning as designed or should it be smart enough to
figure out that it is following a circular link?

2)  If this is normal TSM logic, why did it finally get out of this
loop?

TIA,

Michael





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