On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 05:46:03PM -0700, Jerome Pioux wrote:
> Frank, thank you for your explanation.
> 
> I didn't loose any data, what the links pointed to were backed up in other 
> DLE as you mentionned and were successfuly restored.
> 
> However, if it was only a couple links like /usr/local pointing to 
> /opt/local as you mentionned in your example, I could recreate them 
> easily... But when you have applications or users that use links 
> everywhere, well this is another story :-(
> 
> I guess I was hoping that, somehow??? even without following the link 
> itself, Amanda or Gnutar would be able to store where it was pointing to?...
> 

I don't recommend it, ... but

Have amanda use a gnutar wrapper, not gnutar itself.
In the wrapper either add or delete (I don't know which)
the option which causes gnutar to follow or not follow links
(-h or --dereference)

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