Friedrich,
> My amanda installation is working fine, great tool! Anyway what I would like
> to know is if you can make amanda follow symlinks off the filesystem one is
> backing up. If I use amrecover then I can see the symlinked directory but it
> is treated like an ordinary file. I cannot cd into it and the data is not
> getting backup up. Perhaps if I create hard links? It would not be a big
> problem to create a seperate backup config if I cannot make amanda follow the
> links.
Are you using dump or tar? If you use dump and links are outside of
the file system, there is no way to recover the place they point
to. Dump will only back-up a file system and you want things that are
outside.
Maybe tar can follow symbolic links. Do not forget it is the
responsibility of the program to follow them or not. The way a
symbolic link is conceived, I think Amanda is backing them up
properly: they have their name and content. The content is the name of
a file or directory they are linked to. The content is not the content
of the file or directory. (put into C language, a symbolic link is a
pointer, you save the pointer, not th value associated to the variable
it points to).
Best regards,
Olivier
