Read the Unix client "user's guide" about -Archsymlinkasfile option... you might (likely) want to change your use to the non-default behavior, "No".
Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (change aye to a for replies) Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com) -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Cleary Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 2:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM and AIX Links Greetings, I am somewhat new to AIX and TSM and I have a question about TSM and AIX Links. I have a file that is a link that points to the directory that it resides in. It looks like this: root:/udb/prod/sqllib> ls -l lrwxrwxrwx 1 udbprod udbsadm 1 Oct 11 11:01 .ftok -> . When I run an AIX find command, it finds one .ftok file. However, when I run a TSM archive, it appears to be backing up the directory in question, following the link to the same directory and backing it up again. The archive did this many times, but at some point, it exited this loop and finished with no errors. Questions: 1) Is TSM functioning as designed or should it be smart enough to figure out that it is following a circular link? 2) If this is normal TSM logic, why did it finally get out of this loop? TIA, Michael __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
