Re: [Duplicity-talk] Does duplicity include dotfiles by default?

[Kenneth Loafman]

Sorry, not enough coffee yet this morning... I misread your question.

Duplicity does include the symlinks, but does not follow them.
Following a symlink is a dangerous activity for any backup since
symlinks can produce recursive cycles.  If you want to include the
symlinked contents, that will need to be specified individually.

...Ken

Benjamin Dell wrote:
> That's good to know, is there a chance my script is excluding them?
> because my backup archive file doesnt seem to be anywhere near the size
> i would expect it to be.
> 
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> On 10 Oct 2009, at 11:20, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> 
>> Yes, it does include all dotfiles and symlinks.
>>
>> ...Ken
>>
>> Benjamin Dell wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a very simple include list of two directories, as follows:
>>>
>>> INCLIST=( "/home/ben/backups" \
>>>          "/home/ben/sites" \
>>>        )
>>>
>>> Can anyone tell me whether this will, by default, include all sub
>>> directories AND include all dotfiles? Reason I ask, is that in the
>>> backups folder above I include a symlink to the root maildir, which is
>>> built upon a number of dot based directories. I need to make sure that
>>> it is include all dot files and directories by default, but I have not
>>> been able to confirm this by reading through the documentation.
>>>
>>> Can anyone give me a definitive answer, or what needs to be done to
>>> achieve this?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Ben
>>>
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