On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 12:33 +0200, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > lewis butler wrote: > ... > > mail ~ $ ls -ls etc/postfix/main.cf > > 28 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 28322 Jul 27 16:31 /etc/postfix/main.cf > > mail ~ $ ls -ls /backup/daily.0/etc/postfix/main.cf > > 28 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 28322 Jul 27 16:31 > > /backup/daily.0/etc/postfix/main.cf > > mail ~ $ echo "#test" >> /etc/postfix/main.cf > > mail ~ $ ls -ls /etc/postfix/main.cf > > 28 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 28328 Jul 28 03:39 /etc/postfix/main.cf > > mail ~ $ ls -ls /backup/daily.0/etc/postfix/main.cf > > 28 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 28328 Jul 28 03:39 > > /backup/daily.0/etc/postfix/main.cf > > Is /etc/postfix a symlink?
If /etc/postfix is an absolute symlink, that would do it. Lewis, if you want symlinks in backups to point to the proper items in the backup, you could make the original symlinks relative. Alternatively, you could avoid all symlink surprises by using a daemon on the receiving side with "munge symlinks" enabled. There's an enhancement request for a non-daemon --munge-symlinks option: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5457 By the way, the same symlink surprises that affect manual path-following in the destination also affect --link-dest directory searching, as discussed in the following bug: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4037 Matt
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