tar: <fooey> Cannot hard link to

[John Summerfied <debian herakles homelinux org>]

I have what looks like this:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2004-07/msg00009.html
in
	tar (GNU tar) 1.14
on WBEL 4.

I've downloaded this:
	tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1
which works fine.

My particular problem is in backing up /var which contains cyrus-imapd 
mail files. The same script works on Debian Sarge (from whence I 
imported it), including a system that also runs Cyrus Imapd.

Further investigation shows I was selecting the same source areas twice 
when creating the tarball:
tar cCl / . var boot home

On the system where I created the initial version of the script, those 
were all separate partitions, but not so on WBEL. Consequently the error 
is less serious than   I first thought (but it's still an errror, and is 
fixed in the newer tar).


I encounter the problem some times, but not all times.

It seems to me advantageous to Nahant users for me to report this 
against Nahant.

Is this in order?

btw the option "-l" (lower-case ell) is deprecated in tar 1.15. It has a 
completely different meaning on FreeBSD. So, be warned:-)


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Cheers
John

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