Re: [rdiff-backup-users] symlinks backed up by rdiff-backup have new current date

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Nov 11, 2008, at 3:10 AM, sanyock wrote:
> I used rdiff-backup 1.2.1 on  installed from its repositories.
> Only ext3 file systems were in use on both source and desctination.

What are the mount options?

> Command lines:
> 1) /utils/rsync.sh system router:/ /mnt/data/backup/router/ --delete
> 2) /utils/rback.sh system router::/ /mnt/data/backup/router.versions/
> 3) /utils/rsync.sh compare /mnt/data/backup/router.versions/
> /mnt/data/backup/router/
> --exclude=/mnt/data/backup/router.versions/rdiff-backup-data
>
> Should I test it more by trying to run step 3) without --dry-run ?
> Note: options compare actually uses --dry-run --itemize-changes for  
> rsync.


Sure. Do that and make sure your FS is actually capable of setting  
times on symlinks.


Andrew