On Tuesday 24 February 2009 11:36:12 am tahoe-lafs wrote: > Here's a patch which makes tahoe backup ignore symlinks.
FYI, that's my backup tool's approach as well. For symlinks I store the symlink metadata (including the link target) but don't traverse the link. On a related issue, I also restrict backup scans to a single device. If you want to back up multiple devices, you need to add the root of each. That may be overly-restrictive, but it avoids needing to special-case "faked" file systems like /proc and it also avoids accidentally traversing into a remote mount. All comments and suggestions appreciated. BTW, there's a public git repository of my code at: http://willden.org/~shawn/GridBackup.git It's just a copy of my working repository and is quite a mess. Shawn. _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
