On May 31, 2001, "John R. Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ummmm, I hope you put "/some/where/in/unix/land/." in disklist and not
> just "/some/where/in/unix/land". Without the trailing "/." GNU tar (I
> assume that's what you're using) will only back up the symlink itself,
> not the directory structure it points at.
You sure? Remember that we do
tar -C /some/where/in/unix/land -cf - .
not
tar -cf - /some/where/in/unix/land
which would indeed only archive the soft-link (but then, your backups
would be blazingly fast! :-D
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