Backing Up soft link Files

[susee_sundar]

Hi While I am taking tape Backup....
The soft link files are getting backed up..But the shortcut is only copied & the original file is not getting copied..

How can I take the baackup of Soft link files with their original hard Link...

using backup utilities...
TAR ., FSBACKUP .,CPIO .,

Expecting Reply soon....

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Susee,

Check this out, http://www.phptr.com/articles/article.asp?p=31763&rl=1

-Arun

[susee_sundar]

Arun The site I checked it out but there is no info About backing Up..

Here I can Explain th scenerio:-

#ls
abc
#cd sun
#ls
abc_soft_link
#tar -cvf zipp *
#

In this scene the Tar file zipp contains only the soft Link .,While extracting the file we will not get its hard Link..

is there any arguement with tar command to copy the original link File with its Soft Link..

Thus while extracting in the destination we will get the original file also.

[Enrico P. · Accepted solution]

Hi,

h tar option should work for your problem.

Enrico

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Susee,

Yes, follow the -h option with tar as the man page says,
h Force tar to follow symbolic links as if they were normal
files or directories. Normally, tar does not follow
symbolic links.

[susee_sundar]

Thanks to all.