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Article #9999dump and symbolic links?
From: Spencer Kantor
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 1989 06:37
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 1989 06:37
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Does anyone happen to know if dump follows symbolic links? In other words will dump copy the file the link is pointing to or does it just copy the link entry itself. What if the link is across NFS mounted filesystems - is the "real" file still copied? If dump doesn't normally follow symbolic links is there a way to force it to? For example, there's an option to tar (-h) which forces it to follow symbolic links but I'm unsure about dump. Thanks.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!ames!mailrus!purdue!bu-cs!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: sek@sabre.bellcore.com (Spencer Kantor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: dump and symbolic links? Message-ID: <954@sword.bellcore.com> Date: 3 Jan 89 06:37:37 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 10 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 22 Dec 88 15:40:36 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 83, message 5 of 22