--On Tuesday, September 27, 2005 21:21:15 -0700 Jerome Pioux <jerome.pioux AT 
bull DOT com> wrote:

> Hum, I may just tried that but your non-recommendation is noted :)
> 
> I am also kind of surprised that noone had the same issue before?

I suspect Jon may have misread your question the way I initially did; that you 
wanted tar
to follow the links and backup the target instead of what it normally does 
(recording the
existence of the link).

See a reply I just sent for more info.

Frank
> 
> Thanks for your help
> Jerome
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon LaBadie" <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
> To: <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 7:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Symbolic links
> 
> 
>> On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 05:46:03PM -0700, Jerome Pioux wrote:
>>> Frank, thank you for your explanation.
>>> 
>>> I didn't loose any data, what the links pointed to were backed up in 
>>> other
>>> DLE as you mentionned and were successfuly restored.
>>> 
>>> However, if it was only a couple links like /usr/local pointing to
>>> /opt/local as you mentionned in your example, I could recreate them
>>> easily... But when you have applications or users that use links
>>> everywhere, well this is another story :-(
>>> 
>>> I guess I was hoping that, somehow??? even without following the link
>>> itself, Amanda or Gnutar would be able to store where it was pointing 
>>> to?...
>>> 
>> 
>> I don't recommend it, ... but
>> 
>> Have amanda use a gnutar wrapper, not gnutar itself.
>> In the wrapper either add or delete (I don't know which)
>> the option which causes gnutar to follow or not follow links
>> (-h or --dereference)
>> 
>> -- 
>> Jon H. LaBadie                  jon AT jgcomp DOT com
>> JG Computing
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