On 27 Apr 2006 at 11:30, Bill Moran wrote: > To backup workstations, I simply run a job that backs up /home > since we're not terribly worried about data anywhere else on the > drive. Problem I'm having is that incremental jobs fail silently > when /home is a symlink to /usr/home (which occurs with a default > partition layout on FreeBSD).
I think the the problem is not the symlink. It's the different file system. /home is on / /usr/home is on /usr onefs=no <== may be your friend. See http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Configuring_Director.html and look for onefs. > The fileset resource looks like this: > # This set contains the /home directory > FileSet { > Name = "CFHome" > Include { > Options { > signature = MD5 > compression = GZIP > onefs = no try yes, not no. > } > File = /home > } > } > > If I change "File = /home" to "File = /home/", it works fine. Can anyone > imagine any potential negative side effects? I don't know any, but I'd be interested to know why it works. > The examples in the docs consistently show directories without the > trailing slash, and I haven't noticed any warnings or gotchas regarding > symlinks. Perhaps this is something that simply needs documented? If /home versus /home/ gives different results, I can see all kinds of support questions and problems. -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
