On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 05:46:03PM -0700, Jerome Pioux wrote: > Frank, thank you for your explanation. > > I didn't loose any data, what the links pointed to were backed up in other > DLE as you mentionned and were successfuly restored. > > However, if it was only a couple links like /usr/local pointing to > /opt/local as you mentionned in your example, I could recreate them > easily... But when you have applications or users that use links > everywhere, well this is another story :-( > > I guess I was hoping that, somehow??? even without following the link > itself, Amanda or Gnutar would be able to store where it was pointing to?... >
I don't recommend it, ... but Have amanda use a gnutar wrapper, not gnutar itself. In the wrapper either add or delete (I don't know which) the option which causes gnutar to follow or not follow links (-h or --dereference) -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
