On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 at 11:53am, Michael P. Blinn wrote > I set up a /backup directory with links to everything I'd like to back up -- > Amanda doesn't seem to be following my symbolic links. Is there a way to > force this? Or a better way to get this done?
This is the "correct" behavior for backup software. If one were to always follow symbolic links, one would very often end up with multiple copies of the same thing in a backup. Also, if you're going for an image of a filesystem, then they symlink is what you want, not what it's pointing at. That being said, the easiest way to do what you want would be to use GNUtar as your backup program (thus you won't be confined to backing up entire partitions only), and add disklist entries for directory the symlinks were pointing at. If you were going for file level stuff, you'll have to play with exclusion lists. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
