Answer by Sinipelto for Preserve file permissions and symlinks in archive...
It is actually mentioned in the 7z Man page that for Unix systems, permissions are not stored by 7-Zip:Backup and limitations DO NOT USE the 7-zip format for backup purposeon Linux/Unix because : -...
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This seems to be a limitation of 7-Zip, judging from these bug reports:#1302 .tar archives fail to extract properly#1188 symlinks in tar archives are extracted to 0 byte filesFor now, I'll keep using...
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I have a directory test with three files, ls -l test:total 8-rw-r--r-- 1 mb mb 16 Jul 25 11:12 regular_file-rwxr-xr-x 1 mb mb 19 Jul 25 11:02 script.shlrwxrwxrwx 1 mb mb 12 Jul 25 11:14 symlink ->...
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