Cannot copy a link to an external device?

chombee chombee at nerdshack.com
Wed Jan 23 22:16:58 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 20:01 +0100, Gerald Dachs wrote:
> You did everything right, but you seems not to know what a symlink is.

Please enlighten me! I only have a vague notion of what a symlink is. I
am trying to help my friend backup his content in such a way that he can
later restore it. The content in question is a collection of symlinks.
The hard drive they are on is dying and they need to be backed up.






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