An administrator is attempting to recover the sendmail.cf file from the weekly mksysb backup. The following output confirms that the file does exist within the mksysb backup:

Why would the following smitty panel fail to find and restore the required file?

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An administrator is attempting to recover the sendmail.cf file from the weekly mksysb backup. The following output confirms that the file does exist within the mksysb backup:

Why would the following smitty panel fail to find and restore the required file?

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D. The file to restore must be correctly delimited relative to the backup mksysb archives store files using relative paths without a leading slash. When specifying a file to restore in the smitty panel, the path delimiter must match exactly how the file is recorded in the archive - omitting the leading forward slash is a common requirement. An incorrectly formatted path causes smitty to fail to locate the file even though it exists in the backup.

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A. The target directory must match the source directory The target restore directory does not need to match the source directory; smitty allows specifying an alternate destination path during the restore.

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B. /etc/mail/sendmail.cf is a symbolic link to /etc/sendmail.cf The symbolic link nature of sendmail.cf is unrelated to whether smitty can locate the file within the mksysb archive.

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C. Extended attributes should not be restored for a symbolic link Extended attribute handling during a restore is a separate concern and does not affect the ability to find a file in the backup.

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