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Old 03-25-2008, 06:49 PM   #1
melikai
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Disable Gzip from following system links?


I want to back up my home folder and compress it (using gzip) to my external HDD. The problem is, in my .wine foler theres the dos device drive and there is a system link that links onto itself. When I try to gzip it just goes into a never ending loop. I olled on google and the man pages. Is there something I can do so it won't follow these links or is there another archiver that will allow me to do this.
Please keep in mind I can't se dd, becayse i plane re-partitioning my hdd.
thank you in advance for your help
 
Old 03-25-2008, 07:06 PM   #2
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tar should handle the links properly. Have you tried tar'ing it first and compressing the tar file?
 
  


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