ADSM-L

symbolic links

2006-07-13 05:40:38
Subject: symbolic links
From: Alexander Lazarevich <alazarev AT ITG.UIUC DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:40:42 -0500
TSM 5.3.1 server on windows 2K server. TSM client 5.1.7 on RHEL4-AS. The
client has some recursive symbolic links, and whenever the client backs
up, the server tries to backup every directory within the sym link, which
is infinite and the backup dies.

Is there a flag to ignore backups of sym links? I searched the list back a
couple of years, one other person asked, but no answer. I also checked the
install readme, and it only mentions how to restore an object within a
symlink, not to avoid backing then up alltogether.

Thanks for your time,

Alex