on 10/8/01 9:40 AM, Randal L. Schwartz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jim> This looks useful > Jim> make a diskcopy!!!! > > Jim> the dmg format is really useful > > And when this copy is restored back to my hard disk, will the aliases > point at the now-long-gone volume, or on the volume I just made? > > I guess I could try it, but my hunch is that a .dmg is no better than > my current entire-disk solution, and therefore doesn't cut the muster > on a restore again.
The aliases "should" be restored. Hard links on a Unix system (preaching to the choir is good for my sould, I can tell) are implemented as alias files with a special flag so they are handled by the file system kernel routines. Normal backups don't keep the flag. You could test the dmg implementation easily enough on a small test disk with hard links on it, and then tell us whether the hard links are preserved on restoration. Alternatively, I am going up to 10.1 by the end of the week and need to test out my own backup/wipe/restore solutions, so if you are willing to wait a week or so, I can test Jim Cooper's useful research.
