On Wednesday 05 July 2006 20:40, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wednesday 05 July 2006 18:08, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > > > I tried the suggestion that was made on the list -- to backup, for > > > example, /usr/local/bb/ instead of /usr/local/bb. /usr/local/bb is a > > > symlink to the proper location. As I'd really love not to have to > > > change this every time, it would be nice to find a way to back this up > > > properly without pointing to the real PATH. /usr/local/bb/*? I don't > > > know. > > > > > > Any ideas here? Bacula is all 1.38.5 or 1.38.6 and this particular -sd > > > is running on IRIX with an xfs filesystem. > > > > > > Thanks for any pointers. > > > > Sorry, but Bacula does not follow symbolic links, and it probably never > > will. There are just too many security problems, and worse, following > > symlinks is essentially guaranteed to put it into a recursive situation. > > > > I *could* imagine an Option directive that says follow *one* symlink if > > it is specified at the top level, but that would need a patch to be > > submitted. > > How about an option for FileSet: SymlinkDepth? If set to 0, symlinks > aren't followed, otherwise it's the number of symlinks to follow before > refusing to go any further. Default would be 0 to maintain POLA.
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