Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 08:35:11AM -0400: > In the previous discussion of hard links in the archive, it was suggested > tome that cpio and tar did manage the links correctly although cp -a did > not. > > I just tried to use tar to copy one of my CDs with hard links back onto > the hard disk. I did a cd to that archive, and ran: > > tar -c /cdrom | tar -xv
Tar has many options. When copying filesystems that I want to be exact, I use: tar -c -W --atime-preserve --numeric-owner -p -s -f thisfile.tar -v \ --totals blah.dir I don't recall having hard links archived as the files themselves, but I never really checked...this would be a disturbing omission on GNU's part. -- Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
