--On Tuesday, September 27, 2005 21:21:15 -0700 Jerome Pioux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hum, I may just tried that but your non-recommendation is noted :) > > I am also kind of surprised that noone had the same issue before? I suspect Jon may have misread your question the way I initially did; that you wanted tar to follow the links and backup the target instead of what it normally does (recording the existence of the link). See a reply I just sent for more info. Frank > > Thanks for your help > Jerome > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon LaBadie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 7:39 PM > Subject: Re: Symbolic links > > >> 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) -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
