In response to "Janco van der Merwe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Hi,
>  
> Before wasting valuable time in testing can someone tell me how Bacula
> will react with softlinks? Is it worth going that route? To give you an
> idea on the one server it has 3 partitions and the aim is to backup the
> last 3 months of data but the twist is that the directories and
> partitions of where the data is will change from month to month. What we
> thought is creating a backup dir on the / partition and then a script
> that creates softlinks to the required directories within the /backup
> dir which brings me to the above question will Bacula follow the
> softlinks? 

Please wrap your lines around 72 characters.

Current versions of Bacula don't follow symlinks.  There's been some
discussion about how to add a "follow symlinks" config option, but
I don't know what the current status is on that.

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.

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