Daniel Bareiro <daniel-lis...@gmx.net> writes: > Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: >> > Where the client can have a /space/log and/or /space/backup and >> > the symlink can be in some subirectory of them. With this >> > declaration of File, how I could force backup of symlinks? >> >> if you have GNU find, try >> >> "\\|find /space/ -name backup -o -name log -printf '%l\\n'" >> >> %l (small L) expands to what the symlink points to. if you don't >> have GNU find, use sed to add the trailing "/.", something like >> >> "\\|sh -c \"find /space/ -name backup -o -name log | sed s,$,/.,\"" >> >> note that the sed solution will also handle the case where >> /space/log points to another symlink. > > The solution with sed works as your you indicate to me. The simple > fact to add trailing "/." does that _all_ symlinks in these > directories are followed?
it only modifies the output of find. > With respect to the solution with find, it seems that it is having a > behavior different from that you indicate. According to I read in > the find man pages, %l talks about the object of symbolic link and > empty string if file is not a symbolic link). yes. this way Bacula will backup the target of the symlink, in other words, if /space/log points to /srv/foo/log, the find will emit "/srv/foo/log", and as a result, the files will be stored in the catalog as /srv/foo/log/*. if you use the sed-trick, the files will be recorded in the catalog as /space/log/*. > The correct thing would be to use -L flag? no, that would cause find to follow the symlinks and iterate through the log directory (etc) as well, you don't want that. -- Kjetil T. Homme Redpill Linpro AS - Changing the game ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
