Michael D Schleif wrote:
Does Amanda/GNUTAR _follow_ all mount points and symbolic links in a DLE?
Everytime that I setup Amanda clients, I get confused on these issues.
If this is covered in the FAQ-O-Matic, then I do not see it. If it has been covered on the mailing list countless times, then my searches are too lame. Hopefully, this post, including this subject line, will make this easier to find for those who come after ;>
If I am right, by default, Amanda/GNUTAR _does_ follow follow mount points contained within a DLE, but does _not_ follow symbolic links.
Yes. gnutar is invoked as:
gnutar ... --directory /the/DLE/entry ...
By changing the working directory to /the/DLE/entry the symlink "/the/DLE/entry", if it is one, is effectively resolved. Inside that toplevel directory, symlinks are never followed, just like you would expect from a decent backup program.
Setting up a group of symlinks used to be a trick to shorten long pathnames when you have trouble with the size of a UDP dgram (for exchanging the estimates).
This makes a difference regarding deploying exclude files.
What do you think?
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