[Linux] Tar & symbolic links ?

[Arieh Markel]

> From: Jack Sasportas <jack@innovativeinternet.com>
> To: "linux@flux.org" <linux@flux.org>
> Subject: [Linux] Tar & symbolic links ?
> 
> When you backup a partition which has a symbolic link does the backup of
> that data reside in the symbolic directory path, or in the real
> directory path when you go to restore the data from a tar backup ?

The man page for tar states that there is a switch that indicates to
follow symbolic links (the switch, '-h', is not on by default).

So ...

if you use the switch, a copy of the actual content of the
resource pointed by the symbolic link will be found in the tar image.

Arieh

> 
> I have had some weird problems and restoring some data.
> 
> Thanks...
> 
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