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Re: Why didn't my backup work (the way I thought it should)?
2006-09-13 12:55:12
Zembower, Kevin wrote:
I thought that after all this, I'd be done. However, I'm discovering
pockets of files and directories that seem to have never made it to the
backup tapes in the first place. Some examples:
--/service/tinydns, dnscache, qmail-send, ... All these were soft links
to the files, so from the recent discussion, they wouldn't have been
backed up by tar. Is there a recommended procedure for dealing with
this? Would using 'dump' have prevented this?
I must have missed something. Symbolic links are supposed to be backed
up by gnutar (as links obviously, not the files they point to),
independently of where they point or, for that matter, whether their
target exists or not. If that's not what you observe, or what the
consensus on the list indicates, I think there's something wrong.
Alex
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Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie
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