Tivoli® Storage Manager treats symbolic links and aliases (aliases apply to Mac OS X only) as actual files and backs them up. However, the file referenced by the symbolic link is not backed up.
In some cases symbolic links and aliases can be easily recreated and need not be backed up. In addition, backing up these symbolic links or aliases can increase backup processing time and occupy a substantial amount of space on the Tivoli Storage Manager server.
exclude.attribute.symlink /.../*
include.attribute.symlink /home/spike/.../*