Re: Subtle problem with symlinks, scp and Amanda on Ubuntu

Subject:	Re: Subtle problem with symlinks, scp and Amanda on Ubuntu
From:	"Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
To:	Charles Curley <charlescurley AT charlescurley DOT com>
Date:	Tue, 2 Jun 2009 09:30:55 -0700

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Charles Curley
<charlescurley AT charlescurley DOT com> wrote:
> Since tar does not follow symlinks, the workaround is to tar the
> restored tree, copy that over, and untar it on the target.

I never use 'scp' for more than one file -- its -r mode is badly
broken (and it gets quoting wrong, but that's a different bug).

Here's the tar invocation I learned from Nick Russo lo these many years ago:

tar -cf - $files_to_copy | ssh $remote tar -xf -

Dustin

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