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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: Backing up aliases
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Date: 13 Jun 91 14:25:19 GMT
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In article <4114@ux.acs.umn.edu> oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu (Doc O'Leary) writes:
>In fact, I'd be wary of backup programs that COULDN'T handle aliases.

My first reaction was similar; an alias is a file, so any backup program
should handle it.  Then I had an awful thought.

Suppose you do a full backup and restore.  Won't fileid's and dirid's have
changed so as to make the aliases useless?  After all, a backup program
can only restore file and directory names, not id's.
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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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