Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: Fatal Error: Source is not a directory

[Ty! Boyack]

With many programs the answer is to simply add a slash to the end of 
your source directory.  For example if your command was:

rdiff-backup /home/user/fileToBackup  /backup/directory

then just change it to:

rdiff-backup /home/user/filesToBackup/ /backup/directory

the name 'fileToBackup' is a symlink, but when you append a slash it 
forces it to resolve to the destination of the symlink.

Not certain it works here, but I'd try that first.

-Ty!


Dave wrote:
> Anyone know if there is a way to backup using a symlink as the source?
> Thanks
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Dave <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     I called rdiff-backup with a symlink as the source I wanted to
>     backup and I got this error:
>
>     Fatal Error: Source /home/user/filesToBackup is not a directory
>
>     Is there a way to backup a symlink like this? Thanks.
>
>     Dave
>
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