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Hi everyone from Russia!

I needed to backup data from directories with hyperlinks. All time I was used:
tar cfhFF archive.tar *
i.e. compress all files with hyperlinks follow without "trash" files

But some directories I cannot archive die loop hyperlinks, i.e.:
/somedir -> .

When I try to archive simular directories - tar trying again and again enter to this directory and /somedir/somedir/somedir/somedir/somedir.... etc ...archiving in impossible in this case.

I think this can be solved with scripts that can use readlink to validate loop hperlinks and ignore this. Can you please help me? I does not have any expirience with scripting.

I recommend using rsync command for backup. It is not just easy to deal with softlinks but it is quite bandwidth saving too.

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Thanks, I will try.