On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:35:39 -0400 Ryan Novosielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dan Langille wrote: > > 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. > > That may be in this case, but on one of my machines, /usr/local/bb does > not back up anything: > > uranus 4# ls -la /usr/local/bb > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 10 Jan 17 13:52 /usr/local/bb -> > bb1.9i-btf > > uranus 5# df -h > Filesystem Type Size use avail %use Mounted on > /dev/root xfs 8.4G 2.8G 5.6G 34% / > > ...onefs is definitely not my problem on this box! In this case, this is the behaviour I would expect. i.e. symlinks are backed up _as_ symlinks, not followed. However, the behaviour when a symlink is a link to a directory is a bit different in expectation. And, to my surprise, I could find no configuration in Bacula to control how symlinks are handled. I expected to find something like "follow_symlinks = yes|no" so the configuration could control the behaviour. I don't believe there's any "correct" behaviour for symlinks. Sometimes you want them followed, other times not. It seems to me that the correct thing for Bacula to do is provide a configuration option. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. **************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual responsible for the delivery of this message to an intended recipient), please be advised that any re-use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. **************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------- 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
