[CLUE-Tech] creating system backups

[Ed Hill]

On Sun, 2001-12-30 at 12:40, Matt Gushee wrote:
> 
> Right, because you use the -f option. To quote from the mkisofs man
> page:
> 
>    -f     Follow  symbolic links when generating the filesys-
>           tem.  When this option  is  not  in  use,  symbolic
>           links  will be entered using Rock Ridge if enabled
>           otherwise the file will be ignored.
> 
> Like I said, the man page explains what to do, just not very
> clearly. Your symlinks are preserved if you use -R or -r (the two are
> similar) *without* -f.


Hey, thanks for pointing out my error!  I'm glad to learn what I was
doing wrong so I can go fix my backup scripts...  ;-)

Ed


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