I just discovered that I wasn't backing up the material outside my home directory to which I have symbolic links in the home directory (eg, my /srv/www directory). Apparently what I took for backups of this material was the backup disk using the link back to the originals on my HDD.
I thought using the option "--include-symbolic-links" would solve this problem, but it seems to result in the same behavior: When I open the backup on a different computer, it tells me the links are broken. (This is the command I used: rdiff-backup --include-symbolic-links --exclude /home/eric/.evolution/cache/tmp /home/eric /media/disk/Home-backup) What exactly does the "--include-symbolic-links" do? The man page is profoundly uninformative: "Include all symbolic links." Rdiff-backup already includes the symbolic links in the backup, without using this option--and links to the originals when clicked in the backup. If the option doesn't do something different--viz., follow the symbolic link and back up the linked material as well, why have it? I believe I can't create a hard link to /srv/www because my home directory is in a different partition. Thanks. _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
