On Friday, July 25, 2014 06:00:35 PM you wrote: > No, at the end of the day, we are on the same page Deb. Its a matter of > scale of course and that cannot be helped. I just want my softlinks to > actually be backed up, without any dereference, and its not even with tar > 1.27.1 happening. >
You can test tar easily enough. --one-file-system does not skip or dereference symlinks. Tested with 1.23 and 1.27.1. I did some other tests and with Red Hat's tar 1.23 (patched for xattrs support), amrecover does restore symlinks, regardless of which file system is targeted. This with amanda 3.3.0.
