Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom writes: > Oddly, the problem seems to be related to netcat. If I capture the output of > BackupPC_tarCreate in a tarball, then scp that to the target machine, I can > unpack the files and have the symlinks re-created properly. > > it seems to be only when I pipe the files through netcat that the problem > emerges. it doesn't matter whether I run it through gzip or not; the > symlinks get corrupted. I've heard rumors of this sort of thing in the past; > but this is the first time i've been directly confronted with it (and I've > done this sort of thing before).
Very strange. Is it a buffering/reblocking problem (ie: does the -B tar extract option help)? Can you dump the output of netcat into a file and do a tar -tvf on it? What do the symlinks look like in that listing? Craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
