On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 11:43:36PM -0500, Frank Smith wrote: > --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). >
I wasn't sure what was the situation. You are correct that I was replying about how to foil amanda/gnutar into saving the target of the link rather than the link itself. Again though, I do not recommend that be done. One simple example, suppose a user makes a symbolic link to the "/" directory. Do you really want to try to back up the entire system in this one DLE? One item in the original post that I should have commented upon. A symbolic link should not be zero (0) bytes in size. It should have a real piece of data stored on the disk, the name (pathname) of the target. So a symbolic link to "../foobar" should have a size of 9. If you are recovering symlinks with size 0 I would check the bug info for your version 15.1 gnutar. jl -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
