Cannot copy a link to an external device?

[Gerald Dachs]

Am Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:16:58 +0000
schrieb chombee <chombee at nerdshack.com>:

> 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.

Symlink does not contain content, they simply point to other files.
Without this files, they are useless. This why you get the error
messages.

Gerald