On Friday 28 December 2001 04:52, Mark Lanett wrote: > No, don't use tar for system mirroring, it doesn't handle hard links. > /usr/share is full of them (locales). Tar is only good for user-level > stuff.
I have gone thru several harddisk-wide reformats using backups made from tar -lcjvf (I believe, I needed to specify the "numeric" option also). So far my system seems OK. So what are these hard links supposed to be? Is this FUD, or am I doing something terribly clueless? -- Sir Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
