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-----
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Justin
Piszcz
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 10:45 AM
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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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