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Paul Wright
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‎03-19-2003 12:25 PM

‎03-19-2003 12:25 PM

fbackup of symbolic links

How does fbackup handle symbolic links? Does it back it up simply as a pointer or does it follow the link and backup the file it is pointing to?

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Jeff Schussele
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‎03-19-2003 12:43 PM

‎03-19-2003 12:43 PM

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Re: fbackup of symbolic links

Hi Paul,

Depends on whether you use -s on the fbackup command line.

If you do use -s THEN the file is backed up.

If you don't only the link is backed up.

HTH,
Jeff
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Michael Tully
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‎03-19-2003 12:48 PM

‎03-19-2003 12:48 PM

Re: fbackup of symbolic links

If you wish to include the symbolic link object in your backup, you must include the '-s' option to your command.

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