On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 10:18:42AM +0800, Mathias K?rber wrote:
> chuck shick <chuck.shick@m...> wrote
> [...that a GNUTAR backup did not span filesystem borders..]
> 
> I think this is due to amanda calling gnutar with --one-file-ystem:
> 
> (from /tmp/amanda/runtar*.debug:
> 
> >running: /bin/tar: /bin/tar --create --file /dev/null --directory /var 
> --one-file-system \
> >--listed-incremental 
> /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/localhostImap_0.new --sparse \
> >--ignore-failed-read --totals --files-from 
> /tmp/amanda/sendsize.Imap.20030524155057.include
> 
> and from tar(1):
> >[...]
> >    -l, --one-file-system
> >              stay in local file system when creating an archive
> >[...]
> 
> I wonder why this would be required though. should this not be an option?

You want to chance backing up cd's, floppy's, nfs mounts, samba mounts,
multiple copies of things do to symbolic links, nerver ending circular
links?


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