Hello, I was doing a little test today with the really useful
ARCHSYMLINKASFILE
option, archiving
the /usr area on one of our AIX boxes. Test results as follows:

dsmc archive -archsyml=yes -quiet -subdir=yes "/usr/*"
 Objects inspected/archived: 39294 37403
 Bytes transferred:  343.87MB
 Elapsed processing time: 00:14:22
 Elapsed real time (/bin/time): 862.77 seconds

dsmc archive -archsyml=no -quiet -subdir=yes "/usr/*"
 Objects inspected/archived: 18731 17097
 Bytes transferred:  249.90MB
 Elapsed processing time: 00:09:50
 Elapsed real time (/bin/time): 590.74 seconds

From these figures, especially the bytes transferred, I'm inferring that NO
is
storing the links
and not following them, whereas YES is following the links and storing them.
So
I checked
the readme, (portion reproduced below). A simple 'ls -R1|wc -l' of /usr
gives
20363 which
is closer to the NO options statistics.

  ARCHSYMLinkasfile

    Parameters

           No
               Specifies that you want ADSM to Archive files or directory's
               that symbolic links point to as the symbolic links name.
           Yes
               Specifies that you want ADSM to Archive symbolic links and
               not follow them.  This is the default.

Which is the exact opposite to what I'm seeing!!

So have I missed out something, or is my understanding of the readme wrong,
or
is
the readme itself wrong? (My money's on the latter option).

Anyone got any opinions on this?

Regards

Robert Cross, Systems Programmer, Scottish & Newcastle plc.
[Apologies for the length disclaimer that follows, please feel free to
ignore
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