I searched the archives & found a lot of prior discussion about problems restoring symbolic links, but nothing exactly matching this. I performed a whole-filespace restore onto a new/empty disk volume. The command I used was 'dsmc restore <filespace> -subdir=yes' with no other options. I expected this to restore all/only active objects (files, directories and links) as of the last successful backup. However, my client asserts that this restored some old/outdated symbolic links. This is on a web server where link targets are frequently updated, so this is a critical issue. Can anyone corroborate either of these behaviors? a) 'dsmc restore' restores an incorrect version of a link? b) 'dsmc incr' does not detect/backup a modified link? Is my assumption correct that the command I used should have restored all/only active objects? Our TSM Server is Solaris 2.6 / TSM 4.1.2. The problem client is Digital UNIX OSF 4.0, running the ADSM v3.1.0.7 Client (out of support, I know, but it has proven to be very stable for us). -rsvp, thanks.......meanwhile, I'm about to initiate a new battery of tests Kent Monthei GlaxoSmithKline R&D