[PLUG] dump & restore

Russell Senior seniorr at aracnet.com
Sun Jun 13 19:54:01 UTC 2004


>>>>> "Elliott" == Elliott Mitchell <ehem at m5p.com> writes:

Elliott> Specifically dump guarentees that you will get *every* file
Elliott> once.  Hardlinks *will* be perfectly preserved (GNU tar does
Elliott> a very good job, but doesn't guarentee it). 

Can you describe the circumstances where GNU tar does not preserve
hardlinks? 


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