On Wed, August 30, 2006 11:22, Craig Barratt wrote: > Sturla writes: > >> Hi there list. >> I've been using backuppc for quite a while and am extremely happy with >> it >> so far, but.. >> I had to do a full restore of my web/mail-server the other day and had a >> nasty surprise when all symlinks where restored but dangling... >> They looked all righ, they seemed to be pointing to the right place but >> they where all reported as "dangling". >> Anyone else seen this and perhaps can tell me what I'll have to do to >> prevent it? > > Can you be more specific about what XferMethod you are using, > and the exact error message? What program reports them as > "dangling"? > > Perhaps the symlink gets created before the target file, which > should be ok. After the restore is complete is the symlink correct > or not? Perhaps you are restoring to a different directory, in which > case any absolute symlinks would now point to the wrong place. > > Craig > I'm using rsync, I'm not sure what told me that "xxx is a dangling symlink" other than that it was in bash, but I can't seem to replicate it now. I restored to the same directory as the backup was taken from and the symlinks LOOK ok when I stat them, but they just won't work. If I delete the symlink and create it again with the info from stat it works, but it's kinda tedious doing this on every symlink. I tried to write a script to do it for me, but I'll have to work some more on the selection-part on what to do with regards to what the first char in the symlink is (wether its / or .. or just a regular letter).
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