Re: tar ate my symlinks

2003-03-18 Thread Brian Victor
Kevin, you are a life saver. On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 03:36:37PM -0800, Kevin Buhr wrote: >Sure, use: > >tar tvfj linuxbackup.tar.bz2 | less > >and you'll get an "ls -l"-style directory listing. That's very nice. Takes a long time on a 3GB bz2'ed file, but it works. :) >I believe you've

Re: tar ate my symlinks

2003-03-17 Thread Brian Victor
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 09:43:09AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: >* Brian Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030317 07:52 PST]: >> I backed up my debian installation with the following: >> >> tar --preserve -cv / | ssh 192.168.2.10 'cat > linuxbackup.tar.bz2'

Re: tar ate my symlinks

2003-03-17 Thread Brian Victor
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 09:53:26AM -0800, nate wrote: >Brian Victor said: >> I backed up my debian installation with the following: >> >> tar --preserve -cv / | ssh 192.168.2.10 'cat > linuxbackup.tar.bz2' > >may I ask why? I have never heard of someone atte

tar ate my symlinks

2003-03-17 Thread Brian Victor
I backed up my debian installation with the following: tar --preserve -cv / | ssh 192.168.2.10 'cat > linuxbackup.tar.bz2' And attempted to restore it with the following: ssh 192.168.2.10 'cat linuxbackup.tar.bz2' | tar -jxv Both commands were run as root. However, I now have a *lot* of broken