On Tue, 8 May 2007, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> <SNIP>
> > The problem I'm running into is the app that does the tape backup
> > (commvault) is backing up the hardlinks as files. (which is correct to do)
I'd suggest that commvault fix their software. I think this is a
commercial service. If you use commercial software complain to them.
> 3. If there's a pax wizard here, do you know if pax is smart enough to
> deal with this?
Yes. Even tar is. Here is GNU tar on CentOS Linux:
# tar cvf test.tar /bin/gunzip /bin/gzip /bin/zcat
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
/bin/gunzip
tar: Removing leading `/' from hard link targets
/bin/gzip
/bin/zcat
# tar tvf test.tar
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 56048 2006-09-20 03:12:30 bin/gunzip
hrwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-09-20 03:12:30 bin/gzip link to
bin/gunzip
hrwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-09-20 03:12:30 bin/zcat link to
bin/gunzip
And on NetBSD (using pax-as-tar):
$ tar cvf test.tar /bin/test /bin/[
tar: Removing leading / from absolute path names in the archive
bin/test
bin/[
tar: ustar vol 1, 2 files, 0 bytes read, 20480 bytes written in 1 secs
(20480 bytes/sec)
$ tar tvf test.tar
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9855 Aug 4 2006 bin/test
-r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 0 Aug 4 2006 bin/[ == bin/test
tar: ustar vol 1, 2 files, 20480 bytes read, 0 bytes written in 1 secs
(20480 bytes/sec)
Jeremy C. Reed
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