Re: [Duplicity-talk] symlinks

[Kenneth Loafman]

Darik Horn wrote:
>> In other words, I plug in my usb at home, and the usb is mapped to 
>> /cygdrive/f  I plug it in at work and it's mapped to /cygdrive/h
>>
>> I had hoped that I could just pass a drive letter parameter into my 
>> script, have a symlink (say /backup/usb) remapped to the proper drive, 
> 
> You're probably running:
> 
>   $ duplicity /backup/usb  [...]
> 
> You'll probably get the desired result by doing this instead:
> 
>   $ cd /backup/usb
>   $ duplicity ./  [...]

Darik is correct.  The initial symlink is not followed, however, the
rest of them are followed.  I do not remember why I closed the bug, but
the comments about symlinks in the bug report are accurate.  They cause
a lot of problems for backup systems in general.

...Ken

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