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How The Backup Process Has Changed

How The Backup Process Has Changed

Posted Nov 29, 2007 16:39 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: How The Backup Process Has Changed by jongeek
Parent article: How The Backup Process Has Changed

There's nothing that handles people who have symlinks and hardlinks in 
their $HOME well, as far as I know. (Let alone device files, but that 
really *would* be strange.)


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How The Backup Process Has Changed

Posted Nov 29, 2007 16:49 UTC (Thu) by jongeek (subscriber, #39233) [Link]

Good point about the hard links. Subversion can manage symbolic links perfectly well, though.

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