First, every trick I know can't find a symlink in my whole /home partition. Ah well, something'll turn up.
Secondly, and I'll leave this for you to ponder, is that I remember that the symlink functionality off when I rejiggered the config yesterday. This was confirmed when I went to turn it off just now. However...
It seems that the question asked by debconf confused me. It asks:
Do you want to dereference symlinks?
I assumed 'dereference' means 'don't follow' so I answered 'yes,' because I didn't want to follow them. As it turns out, it has the opposite behaviour :-(
May I suggest that the question be rephrased as something simpler, like,
Do you want to follow symlinks?
and perhaps even add an explanation (this may be in GUI versions of debconf---I'm only aware of the Dialog version.)
Thanks for your time and help.
Cameron Horsburgh
Alexis Sukrieh wrote:
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Hi Cameron and thanks for using backup-manager.
I recently installed backup-manager. Everything seemed to work okay. However, I needed to tweak a couple of things, and I used dpkg-reconfigure for this purpose, which causes my current problem.
Ok, using dpkg-reconfigure is the right way to do it.
/etc and /root seem to backup okay (I haven't properly investigated) but the /home directory keeps building until the partition is full. As you can see, /home is 1.2 gig, but backup-manager gave up once the backup file filled the / partition (15 gig). The docs say I need to have a lot of room left on the partition, but really...!
definitely, I point my finger on the BM_DUMP_SYMLINKS option which is set to true in your configuraiton file:
# do you want to dereference the files pointed by symlinks ? # enter yes or no. export BM_DUMP_SYMLINKS="true"
I'm quite sure there is somewhere in your filesystem, under your /home
directory, a symlink that causes the problem.
Maybe a recursive link?
Anyway, the first thing to do is to disable this option (use dpkg-reocnfigure) and to re-run backup-manager like that:
# backup-manager --force --verbose
If everything goes fine after that, it prooves that your problem comes from a symlink under /home.
This behaviour has only started since I changed the configuration. For what it's worth, the main change is that I enabled CD writing. However, whilst I suspect that I'll have trouble fitting this partition onto a 650 MB CDRW, I'm not sure that this is relevant, because the program doesn't get that far.
No, that's not bound to the burning engine, definitely check your symlinks first ;)
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