[Veritas-bu] How do de-reference symlinks?

>From CJManders at lbl.gov  Sun Feb 12 16:13:42 2006
From: CJManders at lbl.gov (Christopher Jay Manders)
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 08:13:42 -0800
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Is GNU tar --dereference option available?
Message-ID: <43EF5EB6.1010705 at lbl.gov>

Hi,

So, we want to actually back up any data that is contained in symbolic
linked material on one set of systems.
If I were to use GNU tar I would specify the '--dereference' option.

Anyone know whether this is supported, or will be, in NBU?

TIA!

--Chris

Nobody answered him :(

Justin.

On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Justin Piszcz wrote:

> I have a directory with 10 symlinks:
>
> $ ls
> 1 -> /dir/1
> 2 -> /dir/2
> ..
> 10 -> /dir/10
>
> I went through all of the 5.1 manuals but did not find anyway for NetBackup 
> to de-reference symbolic links to their destinations, am I missing something 
> here or is it not supported?
>
> Justin.
>

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