Symbolic Links in a Directory

[Ian Hepples]

Firstly apologies, I know this is a simple one and the man should help but I still can't seem to get it to work.

We have one none standard unix server and it doesn't have a directory called backup which is what all our scripts point to.

Basically, everytime the script writes to /backup, I actually want the data to go to /home/backup as there is lots of space available there.

10 points to anyone who gives me the syntax.

TIA
Ian

[MarkSyder · Accepted solution]

cd /
ln -s /home/backup /backup

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Ian,

Assuming you want backup to be off root (i.e. /backup) and the directory /home/backup already exists

ln -s /home/backup /backup

Thats it!

Duncan

[Ian Hepples]

Thanks,

I was doing the link the other way round.