https://backupforum.progforums.com/BackupForum Backup forum en http://backend.userland.com/rss https://backupforum.progforums.com/BackupForum/viewtopic.php?pid=699#p699 699@https://backupforum.progforums.com/BackupForum Topic: Linux soft links Message: I think you've found a reasonable solution.I don't use the IDrive scripts to backup my Linux machines, I copy disk images and changes to a Windows machine and let IDrive back that up.Has the advantage of having the latest versions of everything local so that I don't need to do a lengthy restore if I suffer a total loss of a machine.I should point out that my Linux boxes don't contain TBs of movies and photos which is why this is viable for me. Sat, 21 May 2022 00:05:09 +0100 https://backupforum.progforums.com/BackupForum/viewtopic.php?pid=698#p698 698@https://backupforum.progforums.com/BackupForum Topic: Linux soft links Message: Just found a (somewhat annoying) solution.  I've included every file that is a soft link in the 'Partial file name' exclusion list.So, I now have:   /home/john/moviesexcluded as a partial path, not whole path, and now the backup size is down to a few GB as expected.Not perfect because I now have to remember to add an exclusion every time I create a soft link, but at least I have a workaround.Still interested in a better way to work with links though! Fri, 20 May 2022 16:11:25 +0100 https://backupforum.progforums.com/BackupForum/viewtopic.php?pid=697#p697 697@https://backupforum.progforums.com/BackupForum Topic: Linux soft links Message: I am running my first trial backup and already see a significant problem.  IDrive is following soft links so that the folder that is linked is getting backed up.  So, I have, in my home directory, links to folders in /mnt for convenience.  My trial backup is /home which is relatively small, but it's telling me that the backup is 1.3 TB because it is putting a backup of the folders in /mnt that are linked.  For example:   /home/john/movies -> /mnt/share/movies   /home/john/pictures -> /mnt/share/picturesso the backup is trying to back up all the movies under /home/john/movies, etc.I am going to backup /mnt as well, but (due to it's size) I'll do the initial backup via. express Drive, and I don't want two backups of everything in /mnt .I tried excluding /home/john/movies , but I get the error that it is not a regular file, and it is removed from the exclude list.I'm hoping (but not sure) that the backup does some smart deduplication so that the path /home/john/movies/Movie1.mp4 and /mnt/share/movies/Movie1.mp4 are both valid backup/restore points, but only one copy actually exists.  If that's the case, it's not too big of a deal, but I'll wait until I've got my express Drive backup before continuing.Can someone confirm that IDrive handles this correctly?  Alternately, is there a way to exclude soft links from the backups? Fri, 20 May 2022 16:03:42 +0100