Re: missing links error

Daniel Davidson <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am sure this is probably in a FAQ somewhere, but I cannot find it.
>
> I have a list of files I was to put in a star archive, so I do something
> like:
>
> star -c list=backuptest-1.txt file=test1.star
>
> which runs to completion, but I get numerous (thousands because I am
> writing to
> 500GB tapes) errors saying something like:
>
> star: Missing links to '/path/to/whatever/file'.
>
> I can go and access the files and they seem proper, so what's with the
> warning?  I know I can nix this error with the -l flag, but I want to
> make sure I am not missing data.

This are your files, so only you may decide whether it may become a problem
if you did not archive all hard links to a file.


Jörg

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