Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] A different backup every day...

2008-09-03 06:37:30
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] A different backup every day...
From: Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho AT linpro DOT no>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:37:09 +0200
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <lists AT truthisfreedom.org DOT uk> writes:
> Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org> wrote:
>> Do a symlink to today's work from a known parent directory.  Allow
>> your FileSet to follow symlinks (I think that's an option).
>
> OK, sounds like a plan.  Am I right in thinking that I then update
> the symlink each day to point to the "current" dataset?

to force Bacula to follow the symlink, you must add /. to the name.

e.g.

   File = /opt/foo/symlink/.

if you do

   File = /opt/foo/symlink

only the symlink it self will be backed up.

-- 
regards,
Kjetil T. Homme
Linpro AS


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