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2122210 - Database Load fails with Backup Server: 4.124.2.1, error=40, msg=Too many levels of symbolic links - SAP ASE

Symptom

Loading an ASE dump returns the following error messages:

Backup Server: 4.124.2.1: Archive API error for device='device_path_device_name': 
Vendor application name=Compress API, Library version=1, API routine=syb_open(), 
Message=syb_open: open() error=40, msg=Too many levels of symbolic links


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Environment

SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) All Versions

Product

SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise all versions

Keywords

    • Too many levels of symbolic links
    • Archive API error
    • syb_open error
    • Backup Server memory corruption
    • SAP ASE database dump failure
    • ASE dump loading issue
    • Backup Server re-cycle
    • Symbolic link issue in Backup Server
    • Compress API library error
    • Archive API device error
    • Backup Server symbolic link problem
    • Backup Server memory re-cycle
    , KBA , BC-SYB-ASE , Sybase ASE Database Platform (non Business Suite) , Problem

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