tar is creating corrupt archives when soft links are present

2022-12-01 Thread Timothe Litt
domainname -> hostname|| ||lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2022-11-28 08:45 bin/domainname -> hostname|| ||hrwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-10-01 16:22 bin/gunzip link to bin/zcat !! hard|| ||lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2022-11-28 08:45 bin/perl -> /usr/bin/perl   !! hard|| | If you are wondering why many links have recent dates - that's an artifact of recovering the correct links after restoring from a corrupt archive. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views, if any, on the matters discussed. OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: tar is creating corrupt archives when soft links are present

2022-12-01 Thread Timothe Litt
Apr 8 18:07:54 EDT 2015 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux|| | Finally, an unrelated (except that it hit this incident and prevented an easy restore) issue: *tar skips some large files with* |tar: root/sd/sd.tar.gz: Cannot stat: Value too large for defined data type||-rw