On Sunday 27 July 2014 17:29:49 Alan Hodgson did opine And Gene did reply: > On Friday, July 25, 2014 06:00:35 PM you wrote: > > No, at the end of the day, we are on the same page Deb. Its a matter > > of scale of course and that cannot be helped. I just want my > > softlinks to actually be backed up, without any dereference, and its > > not, even with tar 1.27.1, happening. > > You can test tar easily enough. --one-file-system does not skip or > dereference symlinks. Tested with 1.23 and 1.27.1. > > I did some other tests and with Red Hat's tar 1.23 (patched for xattrs > support), amrecover does restore symlinks, regardless of which file > system is targeted. This with amanda 3.3.0.
I took the --one-file-system option out of the options that amgtar passes to tar, and at least the verbose error messages are now gone. So I ran amrecover Daily, and checked 2 of the 4 missing listings, and they now are there in the backup database, I was able to chase one of them in /var/lib 2 more directory levels deeper than the failure point now, so I believe the problem to be solved in a usable manner. However, in one failure path it quoted, there are no softlinks. It simply did not like /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs, which actually goes 2 or 3 levels deeper, encountering no softlinks as it goes. So I'm still standing here on my stump and proclaiming that tars "--one- file-system" implementation is broken. And has been since somewhere post 1.22. 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
