On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Steve Kieu <msh.computing AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
>
> I used the archive host and archive one host to a file. When extracting the
> file I saw many error like:
>
> tar: ./rootfs/usr/lib/locale/fr_FR/LC_TELEPHONE: Cannot hard link to
> `usr/lib/locale/br_FR/LC_TELEPHONE': No such file or directory
>
> I guess when backupPC doing teh tar command it does not specify option
> --hard-dereference so the hardlink is replaced by actual file content. The
> system I do a extract does not have the target for the link.
>
> Is it intentional? If so I would argue that the archive dump is not complete
> and usable to be offline storage as it does not self contained file system.
> I am currently testing the Restore options as downloading the tar restore
> file to see if it behaves the same way.
>
> Is there any option to fix that?

I don't think I've ever seen that.  Is there some simple way to reproduce it?

-- 
  Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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