On Tue Nov 29 2011 15:17:35 GMT+0100
[email protected] (Brian Cuttler) wrote:

>>> (although I have to keep in mind that
>>> amanda doesn't follow symlinks, does it?).
> 
>> No, AFAIK it doesn't, and you probably don't want to copy the tarballs
>> around before running amdump.

Just remembered the -h option of gnutar, which dereferences symlinks. So
you should be able to create a directory on you amanda server, create
symlinks to the required target files of your mounted CIFS share and run
amdump on that directory with a dumptype definition using gnutar -h

Jens

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