Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore of symlinks

[Sturla H. H. <st...@hi...>]

On Sat, September 2, 2006 05:20, Craig Barratt wrote:
> Sturla writes:
>
>> I restored to the same directory as the backup was taken from and the
>> symlinks LOOK ok when I stat them, but they just won't work.
>> If I delete the symlink and create it again with the info from stat it
>> works, but it's kinda tedious doing this on every symlink.
>> I tried to write a script to do it for me, but I'll have to work some
>> more
>> on the selection-part on what to do with regards to what the first cha=
r
>> in
>> the symlink is (wether its / or .. or just a regular letter).
>>
>> Any pointers would be great...
>
> You have to include some specific examples in your email.
> Show us a symlink that doesn't work, and one that does.
> Are just absolute symlinks or just relative symlinks
> broken?
>
> Do "ls -l LINKNAME | od -c" to see if there are any extraneous
> characters in the symlink.  Also do "ls -lL LINKNAME" to see
> if the target file exists.
>
> Craig
>

There are absolutely no difference in the output from "stat somesymlink"
before and after I have done "rm somesymlink; ln -s somepath ." where the
somepath is the same as was reported from stat before I deleted the old
symlink, it just won't work...
But I guess since noone else has seen this that it was just a freak
incident, I sure hope so :)

Thanx for trying to help :)

Sturla