George Sinclair wrote:

I noticed sometime ago -- guess it's no surprise to anyone else -- that
if you backup a pathname that is actually a symbolic link then NetWorker
will appear to be backing up the data and will in fact report that it
has done so, but you'll be in for a rude awakening when you later
attempt to recover the data.

George,

This is expected behaviour. If you backup a symlink, then you are
backing up the inode on disk that contains the symlink. This is ALWAYS
what you would want to happen. When you restore a filesystem that has a
symlink in it, you would expect the symlink still to be there.

Imagine if you had a filesystem with say 10 symlinks to the same 100GB
filesystem. If you followed the link for each of these you would backup
the same data 10 times, and use a terabyte of extra media. This would
not be what you expected. Also consider th situation where a symlink
makes a circular reference. How many times would you back it up then?

By default, save never crosses filesystems. Remember that and you will
be fine.

--
Note: To sign off this list, send a "signoff networker" command via email
to listserv AT listmail.temple DOT edu or visit the list's Web site at
http://listmail.temple.edu/archives/networker.html where you can
also view and post messages to the list.
=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=