Re: [Bacula-users] Re - Restore failed - bacula-fd doesn't follow symbolic links

2012-08-14 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 20120810 om 17:04 schreef Davide Franco:
 On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Rados aw Korzeniewski wrote:
  2012/8/10 Davide Franco dfra...@dflc.ch
   Anyway, I'm still trying to figure out how can I enforce the file
   daemon to follow symlinks on Linux filesystem.
  
  Bacula does not follow any symbolic links. It just backups a symbolic link
  as a symbolic link no matter if it points to the file or directory.
  Automatically follow symbolic links threatens to uncontrolled looping. For
  example when someone (user) will make a simple command: $ ln -s . a
  
  If you want to backup a resources which was followed by symbolic link you
  have to add this resources to the FileSet definition.
  
 
 this sounds good for me. It's exactly what I did to recover my data.
 I just had to figure out where my data were located and it worked fine.


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Re: [Bacula-users] Re - Restore failed - bacula-fd doesn't follow symbolic links

2012-08-10 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello,

2012/8/10 Davide Franco dfra...@dflc.ch


 Anyway, I'm still trying to figure out how can I enforce the file
 daemon to follow symlinks on Linux filesystem.


Bacula does not follow any symbolic links. It just backups a symbolic link
as a symbolic link no matter if it points to the file or directory.
Automatically follow symbolic links threatens to uncontrolled looping. For
example when someone (user) will make a simple command: $ ln -s . a

If you want to backup a resources which was followed by symbolic link you
have to add this resources to the FileSet definition.

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