[lbackup-discussion] lBackup and Symbolic Links

[Michael Williams]

Hello All,

I am doing yet another install of lBackup, but I wanted to do things  
differently this time (since the data and the OS will reside on the  
same volume).
I remember reading somewhere that lBackup follows Symbolic links, so I  
thought I would be clever and create a folder full of symbolic links  
to the folders I want to backup. I tested this by creating a symbolic  
link using the ln -s command in the terminal. The link created ok, and  
it seams to work in the terminal because if you use the link as part  
of the cd command you end up in the right place. I then tried to get  
lBackup to backup the folder with the symbolic link in it to another  
folder on the hard drive. The backup proceeded without error but  
lBackup only copied what looks like an alias to the original file  
which is not what I was after.

Does anyone have any ideas what is happening? Should this work or did  
I misunderstand?
For the record, I have compiled rsync 3.0.7 and patched according to  
Mike Bombich's instructions (obviously substituting the version  
numbers). Has anyone else had experience with this new version of rsync?

Thanks,
Michael