[Bacula-users] filesets and symbolic links

[Andreas S. <sch...@sp...>]

hi!

we have servers that operate with several independent raid arrays that
contain (lots of) data to backup.

currently we create tar files of the data-to-be-backed-up on each raid
and would like bacula to pick it up from there.

we have a script that does the tar handling that is run as
ClientRunBeforeJob. because these servers could differ in layout,
number of raids and other details i would prefer not to give a list of
files to back up but just give ONE canonical location on each server
to pick up stuff from and have the script handle the local
configuration. I imagine it to create symbolic links to the respective
files on the other partitions in /var/lib/bacula/ ... except - does
bacula follow symbolic links? if not, how can i do this otherwise?
copying over the files to the location could fail because they are too
big to fit there, even one at a time.