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From: oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu (Doc O'Leary)
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Subject: Re: Backing up aliases
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Date: 13 Jun 91 23:26:56 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.

I don't know about other backup programs, but Redux backs up *everything*
(or at least it seems).  It backs up the window sizes, the location of the
files and folders with the window, the window locations on the screen, etc.
I've never checked, but I'd bet that the id's are saved as well.  When I did
complete restore back when I was using 7.0b4 (after moving from a 40MB to a
105MB internal) everything was EXACTLY as I left it, and the aliases had no
problem opening the original.

Oh, BTW, I have no connection with Microseed Publishing except as a person
who has sent in their registration card and hasn't seen need to bug them
since.

         ---------   Doc


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