Re: Symbolic Link question
Mike - There's nothing wrong with backing up symbolic links, per se. Don't get into the bad habit of arbitrarily excluding things from backup: our responsibility as TSM administrators is to get a full image of client data to allow for a later, full recovery. Pursue the actual issues there. If there are bad symbolic links, ferret them out and have them corrected or deleted. If mysteries remain, post details, including error messages from the backup and dsmerror.log. As it stands now, we have no real idea what the problem is. Richard Sims
Symbolic Link question
We have a TSM backup client that keeps dying when backing up a certain file system. This file system does have a couple of thousand small files in it. It started to get out of memory errors and Tivoli support that it was a bad client version and had us upgrade the client. I did notice that this file system does have some symbolic links. My question is I see you can use archsymlinkasfile to stop an archive from doing symbolic links but what about normal incremental backups. I am coming into this in the middle of the problem so any advice from anyone that has seen this before is most welcomed. The server is HPUX 11i 5.2.3.5 Client HPUX 11 5.3.4 Thanks Mike Anderson CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
Symbolic Link Question.
Hi all, If a directory has been archived and the archsylinkasfile option has not been set, is there an option that can be set on the retrieve to only restore the symbolic links. Many thanks Jason
