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Re: [Bug-tar] I don't know why tar-1.27 cannot back up the contents of a
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Pavel Raiskup |
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Re: [Bug-tar] I don't know why tar-1.27 cannot back up the contents of a softlink |
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Wed, 23 Jul 2014 10:56:22 +0200 |
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Hi,
On Wednesday 23 of July 2014 04:08:13 Gene Heskett wrote:
> Can someone tell me why? Not backing up the contents of a softlink, makes
> an incomplete, often worthless backup.
based on $Subject, it seems that this is 1.27 only, 1.27.1 is OK? Then
'git log release_1_27..release_1_27_1' could help to find what commit
fixes this issue.
> Just last week I had occasion to do a recover after a failed hard drive,
> and the most important editing program I use, gedit now refuses to run
> over an ssh -Y link. Something did not get recreated in the
> /home/gene/.gconf tree.
If there was a temporary bug, it would be nice to catch this issue and cover
it by test-case. Don't you have a more indices? Format, parameters, etc.
With usual tar defaults & the git log above I don't see pointers yet.
Pavel
- [Bug-tar] I don't know why tar-1.27 cannot back up the contents of a softlink, Gene Heskett, 2014/07/23
- Re: [Bug-tar] I don't know why tar-1.27 cannot back up the contents of a softlink,
Pavel Raiskup <=
- Re: [Bug-tar] I don't know why tar-1.27 cannot back up the contents of a softlink, Gene Heskett, 2014/07/23
- Re: [Bug-tar] I don't know why tar-1.27 cannot back up the contents of a softlink, Gene Heskett, 2014/07/23
- Re: [Bug-tar] I don't know why tar-1.27 cannot back up the contents of a softlink, Pavel Raiskup, 2014/07/23
- Re: [Bug-tar] I don't know why tar-1.27 cannot back up the contents of a softlink, Gene Heskett, 2014/07/23
- Re: [Bug-tar] I don't know why tar-1.27 cannot back up the contents of a softlink, Gene Heskett, 2014/07/23
- Re: [Bug-tar] I don't know why tar-1.27 cannot back up the contents of a softlink, Gene Heskett, 2014/07/25
- Re: [Bug-tar] I don't know why tar-1.27 cannot back up the contents of a softlink, Pavel Raiskup, 2014/07/25
- Re: [Bug-tar] I don't know why tar-1.27 cannot back up the contents of a softlink, Gene Heskett, 2014/07/25