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#8 How to back up symlinks?

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Updated: 2011-10-16

Created: 2011-10-16

Creator: Iain Hallam

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I've got a number of directories that are basically full of links to other files also included in my backups. How can I set backup2l to backup and restore the links rather than the dereferenced files?

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Gundolf Kiefer - 2011-10-17

This is the default behavior (at least for symbolic links), you do not have to set up anything for this.

Gundolf Kiefer

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Iain Hallam - 2011-10-17

Interesting. I just restored a server, and the symlinks had been turned into copies of the files to which they linked. Which configuration setting should I check for this? The backup was done on CentOS 5.6 (I can't remember where that RPM came from) and the restore was with the default Ubuntu 11.04 package.

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