In response to Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wednesday 05 July 2006 18:08, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > > I tried the suggestion that was made on the list -- to backup, for > > example, /usr/local/bb/ instead of /usr/local/bb. /usr/local/bb is a > > symlink to the proper location. As I'd really love not to have to change > > this every time, it would be nice to find a way to back this up properly > > without pointing to the real PATH. /usr/local/bb/*? I don't know. > > > > Any ideas here? Bacula is all 1.38.5 or 1.38.6 and this particular -sd > > is running on IRIX with an xfs filesystem. > > > > Thanks for any pointers. > > Sorry, but Bacula does not follow symbolic links, and it probably never will. > There are just too many security problems, and worse, following symlinks is > essentially guaranteed to put it into a recursive situation. > > I *could* imagine an Option directive that says follow *one* symlink if it is > specified at the top level, but that would need a patch to be submitted.
How about an option for FileSet: SymlinkDepth? If set to 0, symlinks aren't followed, otherwise it's the number of symlinks to follow before refusing to go any further. Default would be 0 to maintain POLA. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. **************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual responsible for the delivery of this message to an intended recipient), please be advised that any re-use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. **************************************************************** Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
