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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: Backing up aliases
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.175343.16313@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 91 17:53:43 GMT
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In article <1991Jun13.142519.20475@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
>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.

Sure, but the aliases store lots of ways of finding the file.  I would be
really surprised if full pathname wasn't one of them.

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