On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 10:28 +0100, Chris G wrote:
I currently use a mix of rsync and rdiff-backup to backup my home system.
The basic backup is an rdiff-backup of all of /home to the NAS server in the garage.
*However* (and it's a big however) this has one huge hole in it, rdiff-backup does *not* copy the 'contents' of symbolic links. All it does (if you tell it to) is to copy the symbolic link leaving it on the resulting backup as a symbolic link which points at nothing.
Yes assuming that even with the --enable-symbolic-links option it only does what you say and copies the link then it does appear that rdiff-backup does not follow links nor is there an option to allow this.
However I think rdiff-backup uses librsync and rsync itself does have the capability to transform/follow links so I would imagine it would be a pretty trivial change to rdiff-backup to make it do this.