ADSM-L

Re: symbolic links

2006-07-13 17:59:43
Subject: Re: symbolic links
From: Remco Post <r.post AT SARA DOT NL>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:58:14 +0200
Schneider, Jim wrote:
> Alex,
>
> There is a dsm.opt file option "archsymlinkasfile no" and command line
> option "-archsyml=no'.  According to the  Backup-Archive Clients
> Installation and User's Guide=, this will archive the symbolic link and
> not the associated file or directory.
>

and, yes, for backups there is a similar option, check your dsm.sys for
an option called followsym or something, just put an asterisk (*) in
front of it, or delete completely, TSM's default behavior is to do the
right thing....

see
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v1r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.itsmc.doc/ans50000258.htm


> Cheers,
> Jim Schneider
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of
> Alexander Lazarevich
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 9:41 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] symbolic links
>
> 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


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