Example Archiving Operation

Note that there are symlinks located in the target directory. Archive backs them up to a tar file, removes them, does the archive, and restores the links.

archive /usr1/scv/ejones/mysrc

Checking for symlinks....Done

Symlinks exist in the directory you specified.
They will have to be temporarily removed before I can continue.
Would you like me to temporarily remove them? (y/n):y
Creating separate archive for symlinks...Done

Archiving requested files. This may take a while...

ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager
Command Line Backup Client Interface - Version 3, Release 1, Level 0.4 A
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation, 1990, 1998, All Rights Reserved.

Archive function invoked.

Node Name: JACKS
Session established with server ADSMSERV.FSERV: AIX-RS/6000
  Server Version 2, Release 1, Level 5.15
  Server date/time: 10/19/98   13:16:19  Last access: 10/19/98   13:09:26

Directory-->                 512 /usr1/scv [Sent]
Directory-->               4,096 /usr1/scv/ejones [Sent]
Directory-->                 512 /usr1/scv/ejones/mysrc [Sent]
Directory-->                  40 /usr1/scv/ejones/mysrc/subdir [Sent]
Normal File-->               721 /usr1/scv/ejones/mysrc/my file [Sent]
Normal File-->            10,240 /usr1/scv/ejones/mysrc/symlink_archive.908817377.tar [Sent]
Normal File-->                 0 /usr1/scv/ejones/mysrc/archive.908817377
[Sent]
Normal File-->               372 /usr1/scv/ejones/mysrc/file2 [Sent]
Normal File-->                50 /usr1/scv/ejones/mysrc/file3 [Sent]
Normal File-->               132 /usr1/scv/ejones/mysrc/file1 [Sent]
Normal File-->                 0 /usr1/scv/ejones/mysrc/.file5 [Sent]
Normal File-->                67 /usr1/scv/ejones/mysrc/subdir/file4 [Sent]
Archive processing of 'mysrc/' finished without failure.
 

Total number of objects inspected:       13
Total number of objects archived:        13
Total number of objects updated:          0
Total number of objects rebound:          0
Total number of objects deleted:          0
Total number of objects failed:           0
Total number of bytes transferred:     1.70 KB
Data transfer time:                    0.00 sec
Network data transfer rate:          753.95 KB/sec
Aggregate data transfer rate:          0.58 KB/sec
Objects compressed by:                   86%
Elapsed processing time:           00:00:02

Restoring symlinks...Done.