Because of limitations of my NAS, I can only run user-space NFS (unfs)
on it.

When BackupPC has TopDIR set to the mounted (u)NFS share, BackupPC
ends up silently freezing at the start of a backup.

I traced the problem to issues with symbolic links. Specifically, with
the combination of the flags --links and --times

If I run:
rsync -v --times --links <symlink> <unfs share>
I get the error message:
  rsync: failed to set times on "<path-to-file>": Stale NFS file handle
(116)

However, the link itself seems to copy ok except that the time is
always the time of the copy (since it failed to set times I guess).

Now assuming that I can't fix unfs, is there any way to get rsync to
ignore times on links (while still respecting the --times variable on
other files). I'm thinking of something analogous to the
--ignore-dir-times directive.

Alternatively, is there any way to get BackupPC to just ignore this
error?

Thanks

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