I don't think dump follows symbolic links by default to both keep from
backing up a particular file multiple times as well as to eliminate the
possibility of a recursive loop during the backup.
I don't have easy access to the man pages right now (on my windows laptop
at home) but it seems that I read this as I was trying to figure out what
my back up solution was going to be at my business office.
hope this helps I'm sure someone else will have a real solution.
BTW I went with amanda as a backup solution partly for the very reason you
describe of not needing an X environment for restorations. One of our
boxes does not even have X on it (firewall).
Bret
Gustav Schaffter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was just trying out dump/restore. Seems to be a nice package. Most
> importantly, I should be able to do a restore even if my system becomes
> rather 'crippled' since restore doesn't require X.
>
> My problem is when doing dump:
>
> I had the idea to create a directory containing only symbolic links to
> the different parts of my system that I want to backup. Then I can
> easily maintain exactly what parts of my system to backup by
> creating/deleting the symbolic links.
>
> Problem is that dump doesn't seem to follow symbolic links. A symbolic
> link to another directory shows up as a file in the dump (as seen by
> restore -i), not as a directory containing files.
>
> Is this working as designed?
>
> How do you maintain a list of what you want to dump? Any smart ideas?
>
> Regards
> Gustav
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