Can someone tell me why? Not backing up the contents of a softlink, makes an incomplete, often worthless backup.
Just last week I had occasion to do a recover after a failed hard drive, and the most important editing program I use, gedit now refuses to run over an ssh -Y link. Something did not get recreated in the /home/gene/.gconf tree. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS