[asterisk-gui] lathama: branch 2.0 r5140 - /branches/2.0/config/js/backup.js

[Andrew Latham]

I did a quick look up of all the "dereference" options and the general
idea is that it is safer for systems that also do not support symbolic
links.  I would love feed back on this if there is a real problem.

~~~ Andrew "lathama" Latham lathama at gmail.com ~~~



On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Jason Parker <jparker at digium.com> wrote:
> On 01/14/2011 11:32 AM, SVN commits to the Asterisk-GUI project wrote:
>>
>> Author: lathama
>> Date: Fri Jan 14 11:32:16 2011
>> New Revision: 5140
>>
>> URL: http://svnview.digium.com/svn/asterisk-gui?view=rev&rev=5140
>> Log:
>> GUI Backups with Symlinks
>>
>> GUI Backups with Symlinks
>> Add TAR option -h, --dereference = follow symlinks
>>
>> (closes issue #18577)
>> Reported by: rjch_au
>> Patches:
>>       asterisk-gui_backup_fix_for_symlinked_asterisk_directories.patch
>> uploaded by rjch au (license 1191)
>> Tested by: lathama, rjch_au
>>
>
> Something about this feels off to me.  What happens when you try to restore
> the backup?  I expect that the distribution will fail quite nicely, since
> presumably the files would be put into /etc/asterisk/, rather than where the
> symlink is..
>
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