[Box Backup] Symbolic links

Ben Summers boxbackup at fluffy.co.uk
Mon Oct 3 15:30:05 BST 2005


On 3 Oct 2005, at 15:26, Maarten van Lieshout wrote:

> Does Boxbackup follow symbolic links during backup? If so, can I  
> disable
> this for a given directory?

Symlinks are stored, not followed. So if you restore, you will get  
the symlink back.

In general you can exclude anything if you know it's name using  
directives in the .conf file.

Ben






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