Have you considered using rsync?

On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 5:36 PM King Beowulf <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 4/4/20 4:06 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> > tar:
> root/web_safety/build/squid/squid-4.9/debian/.debhelper/squid/dbgsym-root/usr/share/doc/squid-dbgsym:
> File removed before we read it
> > tar:
> root/web_safety/build/squid/squid-4.9/debian/.debhelper/squid-cgi/dbgsym-root/usr/share/doc/squid-cgi-dbgsym:
> File removed before we read it
> > tar:
> root/web_safety/build/squid/squid-4.9/debian/.debhelper/squid-purge/dbgsym-root/usr/share/doc/squid-purge-dbgsym:
> File removed before we read it
> > tar:
> root/web_safety/build/squid/squid-4.9/debian/.debhelper/squidclient/dbgsym-root/usr/share/doc/squidclient-dbgsym:
> File removed before we read it
> > tar:
> root/web_safety/build/squid/squid-4.9/debian/squid-common/usr/share/squid/errors:
> File removed before we read it
> >
> > I've never seen tar errors like this before...
> >
> > ...
> > tar --one-file-system --keep-directory-symlink -chjf
> $dump_dir/root.tar.bz2 root/ 2>$dump_dir/tar_err.txt
> > ...
> >
>
> I was in error about the -h parameter.  Sorry about that. To much time
> at home I suppose.
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/dereference.html
>
> -h is only used to follow the symlink and grab the linked file.
>
> $ ls -l tar_test/
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 beowulf users 9 Apr  4 17:23 symtest2.txt -> test2.txt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beowulf users 0 Apr  4 17:23 test1.txt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beowulf users 0 Apr  4 17:23 test2.txt
>
> $ tar -cvjf tar_test.tar.bz2 tar_test/
> tar_test/
> tar_test/test1.txt
> tar_test/test2.txt
> tar_test/symtest2.txt
>
> $ mv tar_test.tar.bz2 /tmp/tar_test.tar.bz2
> $ cd /tmp
> $ tar -xjf tar_test.tar.bz2
> $ $ ls -l tar_test
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 beowulf users 9 Apr  4 17:23 symtest2.txt -> test2.txt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beowulf users 0 Apr  4 17:23 test1.txt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beowulf users 0 Apr  4 17:23 test2.txt
>
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