Greetings; It turns out some of my backups for this machine will not be usable, particularly for a bare metal recovery on a new drive, due to a miss- understanding of the --one-filesystem option by tar-1.27, and 1.27.1 does not fix it.
The problem is that this system is currently installed with two partitions, 3 actually if you count swap space. They are /boot, and / So tar refuses to back up a softlink that points to a directory/file that is in a different dir than the current disklist entry points to, EVEN THOUGH IT IS IN FACT on the same filesystem. The config I've been using for a decade and change uses that option command. Will removing it (--one-filesystem) from my config fix this missing links in the backup problem? Or will that result in its making a duplicate backup file of what is at the end of that softlink? IMNSHO, when tar encounters such a link, instead of making a backup of that file at the end of the link, it should backup the contents of the links text so that an amrecovery will re-create the link file. It is not doing that either, so how do, or can, I force tar to do that and result in a fully usable backup? This does not seem to me to be a violation of the one filesystem command, making sense ONLY if the link is to a different partition, which could be a different filesystem, which this present situation is most certainly not. Different directory yes, different filesystem, no. Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS
