Re: hardlinks

2014-10-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 28.10.2014 um 09:33 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > If I use amgtar as amanda application, how does it handle hard links? sorry for the double post, my email client seemed to have stuck (and obviously hasn't ...) S

hardlinks

2014-10-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
If I use amgtar as amanda application, how does it handle hard links? A customer tells me he has some pictures in a website and does hardlinks to save space. When he restores from amanda he gets several copies of one and the same picture and no hard links created? Is that expected behavior

tar and hardlinks

2005-11-22 Thread Rodrigo Ventura
Whenever I recover to a directory other than the one the original files were, sometimes I get warnings about hardlinks. How are hardlinks handled by tar? I suppose it only stores one copy of the file, and saves a link from the second to the former. If I choose to recover a certain directory, not