I just create two DLEs mynode / backuptype mynode /boot backuptype
Then amdump myconfig ( or amdump myconfig mynode ) will get both of them. Is this not an option for you? Deb Baddorf Fermilab On Jul 25, 2014, at 1:45 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings; > > It turns out some of my backups for this machine will not be usable, > particularly for a bare metal recovery on a new drive, due to a miss- > understanding of the --one-filesystem option by tar-1.27, and 1.27.1 does > not fix it. > > The problem is that this system is currently installed with two > partitions, 3 actually if you count swap space. > > They are /boot, and / > > So tar refuses to back up a softlink that points to a directory/file that > is in a different dir than the current disklist entry points to, EVEN > THOUGH IT IS IN FACT on the same filesystem. > > The config I've been using for a decade and change uses that option > command. Will removing it (--one-filesystem) from my config fix this > missing links in the backup problem? Or will that result in its making a > duplicate backup file of what is at the end of that softlink? > > IMNSHO, when tar encounters such a link, instead of making a backup of > that file at the end of the link, it should backup the contents of the > links text so that an amrecovery will re-create the link file. > > It is not doing that either, so how do, or can, I force tar to do that and > result in a fully usable backup? > > This does not seem to me to be a violation of the one filesystem command, > making sense ONLY if the link is to a different partition, which could be > a different filesystem, which this present situation is most certainly > not. Different directory yes, different filesystem, no. > > Thanks. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS
