Backup Sanity Check

[sgrzy]

Just a quick sanity check.. I see people using tar but generally using tar zcf, but that produces:

tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
tar: Removing leading `/' from hard link targets

not worried about the first one, but the second one does worry me...

just want to confirm that:

tar --absolute-names -jcf <backup>.tar.bz2 /opt/zimbra/backup/

will preserve the integrity of the directory structure links so if we need to use the backup file, it will be ok...

Thanx....

[p24t]

-P (--absolute-names) will preserve the leading /, if you need that. You will also want to specify -P when you extract for the full path (unless you tell it to extract to /)

Honestly, you shouldn't have to worry about the hard links. Either way will tar things up just fine.