[Bug 589169] Re: simlink profile directory echoing profile directory

[Nan M]

Thanks for the clarification about what I should expect.

However, I'm still facing the conundrum of how to prevent loss of the backup if the archive created by gzip is  treated as it appears to be if/when I ever have to extract it - - viz.  as things are now, if I archive my home directory, preview of that archive implies that tarring appears to break the Thunderbird profile structure.
As a test (what would I know how to test but I have little else to go on) I made a small directory containing copies of both the ~/.mozilla-thunderbird and ~/.thunderbird directories, compressed it with Gzip and attempted to extract the archive.
The extraction failed with "fatal error" reported.

Can you give me any clues about how to treat this kind of simlink so as to prevent backup data loss?
I can't find anything specific about simlink handinling in the basic linux and gzip manuals.

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simlink profile directory echoing profile directory
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/589169
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