Robert,

See my message 'Archive and symbolic links', plus previous threads months ago.  
I
believe development is aware of the issue, but I think we need to put public
pressure to change this behaviour (introduce an option -symlinkaslink for
archives).

You may also find that loops in links give problems too, since ADSM will happily
decend endlessly.

Cheers...
Bruce

Robert Cross wrote:

> Sorry if this has already been covered before ....
>
> Is there ANY way to stop an archive operation following symbolic links and
> thereby end up storing
> the file that they point to? We're using the AIX and Solaris 2.4/2.6 clients
> with an AIX server node.
>
> If it can't be done, may this user very humbly suggest that we see such a
> capability *real soon*. The last
> archive I took of the '/' area of one of our Sun boxes (total occupied
> filespace 15MB) took 5GB to store
> because the silly program had followed all the links (of which there were many
> alas).
>
> Over to you IBM gurus .....
>
> Bob Cross, Systems Programmer, Scottish & Newcastle plc
> Disclaimer: any intemperate opinions or abusive language is my responsibility,
> not my employers.
>
> P.S. while we're on the subject of archive, being able to take an include or
> exclude list of files would be
> nice. Apart from these niggles I really quite like ADSM.