Hi folks, Bit lengthy explanation, but I hope it's clearer this way:
Searching for backups of our one-and-only Windows machine, I detected that dirvish had never made any backups of it, or at least has not during the last few weeks. On the (Linux) server, there is one directory offered by Samba for the Win machine. Let's call it /foo. This directory has always been backed up by dirvish and used to have a sub-directory /foo/backup for the Windows machine to play over some its data to be backed up, too. However, /foo is on a very small partition, so due to the Windows backups it grew too much and a few weeks ago, I decided to put it into its own directory mounted on another partition and simply called it /backup. A symlink /foo/backup points the Win machine to /backup, and everything seemed to be fine. But dirvish never followed the symlink /foo/backup to the new /backup directory (I think that is ok, I simply forgot). But in my dirvish backup, I have considered the directories directly deviating from root by making a "backup-root" directory on the discs and excluding those which are nonsense. So yesterday I expected, after having made a directory "backup-backup" for /backup on the backup medium and putting the dirvish conf file into it that dirvish would consider /backup last night, but it didn't. What was wrong here? Did I forget something? Thank you for any hints. Rolf _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
