I need to be able to backup JUST the file system's directory structure (not files e.g only /usr /opt) via cpio and also to save a copy to a flat file. How do I deal with soft links? This is important since when I do the restore via cpio, I want to be able to recreate the directories and also make those that had soft links point to the right owners. I also need to recreate the dir. structure without using cpio based on the flat file that I had saved.
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how to back up and restore soft links via cpio
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