Re: How to restore files without deleting existing

2004-10-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 07:57:33PM -0700, Jeff Chimene wrote: > > --- Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 07:33:04PM -0700, Jeff > > Chimene wrote: > > > > > > --- Rajesh Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > As far as I know, if you operate on the sy

Re: How to restore files without deleting existing

2004-10-03 Thread Jeff Chimene
--- Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 07:33:04PM -0700, Jeff > Chimene wrote: > > > > --- Rajesh Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > As far as I know, if you operate on the symlink, > you > > > are operating on > > > the files/dir that it points to. Unli

Re: How to restore files without deleting existing

2004-10-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 07:33:04PM -0700, Jeff Chimene wrote: > > --- Rajesh Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As far as I know, if you operate on the symlink, you > > are operating on > > the files/dir that it points to. Unlike hard links, > > which are actual > > copies of the link point

Re: How to restore files without deleting existing

2004-10-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 06:52:42PM -0700, Jeff Chimene wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to resolve a tar restore issue. Using the > newest gnu tar. > > While using tar to deploy software, today I wiped > clean my destination directory. This was somewhat of a > surprise. The only files left in the dest

Re: How to restore files without deleting existing

2004-10-03 Thread Jeff Chimene
--- Rajesh Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I know, if you operate on the symlink, you > are operating on > the files/dir that it points to. Unlike hard links, > which are actual > copies of the link pointed to. > And if I recall right, tar's behaviour, by default, > is to over-writ