diff --git a/harnessed_jobs/BOT_acq/v0/producer_BOT_acq.py b/harnessed_jobs/BOT_acq/v0/producer_BOT_acq.py
index 2732b8c..7fa79dc 100755
--- a/harnessed_jobs/BOT_acq/v0/producer_BOT_acq.py
+++ b/harnessed_jobs/BOT_acq/v0/producer_BOT_acq.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 import subprocess
 import pathlib
 import siteUtils
-
+from bot_acq_retry import copy_exposure_symlinks
 
 def copy_sequencer_files():
     """
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ def copy_sequencer_files():
     subprocess.check_call(command, shell=True)
     with open(json_file, 'r') as fd:
         seq_paths = json.load(fd)
-    for key, value in seq_paths.items():
+    for _, value in seq_paths.items():
         command = f'scp {value} .'
         print(command)
         subprocess.check_call(command, shell=True)
@@ -49,9 +49,11 @@ def copy_sequencer_files():
 shutil.copy(bot_eo_acq_cfg, os.path.join('.', outfile))
 
 copy_sequencer_files()
+skip = copy_exposure_symlinks()
+
+command = (f'/home/ccs/bot-data.py --symlink . --skip {skip} '
+           f'--run {run_number} {bot_eo_acq_cfg}')
 
-command = '/home/ccs/bot-data.py --symlink . --run {} {}'\
-    .format(run_number, bot_eo_acq_cfg)
 subprocess.check_call(command, shell=True)
 
 pathlib.Path('PRESERVE_SYMLINKS').touch()
diff --git a/python/bot_acq_retry.py b/python/bot_acq_retry.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6b62527
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/bot_acq_retry.py
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+import os
+import glob
+
+def copy_exposure_symlinks(copy_links=True):
+    """
+    If the current job execution is a retry, there will be a previous
+    working directory with symlinks to the successful BOT exposures.
+    This function finds the last working directory by sorting on the
+    activityId directory names, copies the exposure symlinks to the
+    current directory and returns the number of symlinks it made.
+
+    If there is no previous working directory, zero is returned.
+    """
+    current_dir = os.path.abspath('.').split('/')[-1]
+    try:
+        last_dir = sorted([_ for _ in glob.glob('../*')
+                           if current_dir not in _])[-1]
+    except IndexError:
+        return 0
+
+    num_symlinks = 0
+    for item in glob.glob(os.path.join(last_dir, '*_[0-9]*')):
+        if os.path.islink(item):
+            exposure_name = os.path.basename(item)
+            num_symlinks += 1
+            if copy_links and not os.path.islink(exposure_name):
+                os.symlink(os.path.realpath(item), exposure_name)
+    return num_symlinks