Re: [Burp-users] How can I backup symlinks and empty directories?

[Benjamin Z. S. <zi...@zi...>]

Hi,

When you say symlink and empty dirs are not backed up, how do you notice that?

Are these files missing when you run a burp -a l -b <backup_number> ?Le 3 mars 2015 17:28, Larsen <lar...@we...> a écrit :
>
> Hi, 
>
> I am currently evaluating Burp and it looks very promising so far. 
> Testing with Burp 1.3.48 from Debian Wheezy backports and with the latest  
> 1.4.32 in a local VM. I would prefer to use the Debian version even when  
> it´s older as long as I don´t miss out on functionality I need. 
>
> In my test setup a directory containing some files and a symlink only  
> stores the files but not the symlink in the backup. 
> Though, I have read that symlinks should be stored so what am I doing  
> wrong? Do you need the client config? 
>
> Second problem is that empty directories are not stored. I assume this  
> might be a general inconvenience as I know this behaviour from our current  
> backup software. 
> Is there a way to store empty directories with Burp? (without the  
> workaround to create dummy files) 
>
>
> Lars 
>
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