Hum, I may just tried that but your non-recommendation is noted :)

I am also kind of surprised that noone had the same issue before?

Thanks for your help
Jerome

To: <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: Symbolic links

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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