I am using softlinks for devices with bacula 1.36.3 and they work
perfecly. I keep a storage device for each client (or family of clients)
on a 4.5 Tb system and in / there is a directory with soft links to the
various storage devices, so I can change their physical location without
stopping
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The original poster was referring to backing up softlinks, not using
them as backup devices/locations.
Bacula will back up the link, if I'm not mistaken, but not the data
underneath. This affects me for the following reason: let's say my list