had to add link following to find command, and then magically our link
content was getting backed up. whew.
chdir($root);
local($outcome) = 0;
- my @lines = qx( $find_tool "$subdir" @extra_flags "-type" "f" );
+ my @lines = qx( $find_tool "$subdir" @extra_flags "-follow" "-type" "f" );
# if ( ($! != 0) || ($? != 0) ) {
# die("failure to find files in $subdir");
# }
}
local($outcome) = 0xff & system $tar_tool,
#"--directory=" . "$root",
- @extra_flags,
+
#hmmm: trying to dereference symbolic links and stop missing stuff.
"-h",
+ @extra_flags,
"-rf", &canonicalize($target_file), @excludes, $i;
if ($outcome) { die("failure to archive"); }
}