Usually the symlink itself is added to the tar not what it points to. To test this use
tar tvzf <my_first_filename> |grep www
It will show you what is in the first tar ball. You should only see the symlink entry not the data the symlink points to.
On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 10:33, Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:
Hullo list, When a directory is tarred and gzipped, will it also include any symlinked directories? e.g first directory to be gzipped is /home/jenny, which contains a link to /var/www second directory to be gzipped is /var/www Tarball is created from both these directories. Burning Q: are the files in /var/www being saved in the tarball twice? Jen.
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