On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 12:32:01PM -0600, Bret Hughes wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was just trying out dump/restore. Seems to be a nice package. Most
> > importantly, I should be able to do a restore even if my system becomes
> > rather 'crippled' since restore doesn't require X.
> >
> > My problem is when doing dump:
> >
> > I had the idea to create a directory containing only symbolic links to
> > the different parts of my system that I want to backup. Then I can
> > easily maintain exactly what parts of my system to backup by
> > creating/deleting the symbolic links.
> >
> > Problem is that dump doesn't seem to follow symbolic links. A symbolic
> > link to another directory shows up as a file in the dump (as seen by
> > restore -i), not as a directory containing files.
> >
> > Is this working as designed?
Dump is designed to backup fileystems (ie, think on the level of disk
paritions). It reads your disk at the lower ext2 level.
To do what you want do, you would be better writing a script which uses
tar to archive the directories you want backed up.
Thankfully, you can also operate tar without an X session :^)
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