Frank Posted April 17, 2003 Report Share Posted April 17, 2003 Howdy, the retrospect manual tells me that Retrospect follows symbolic links in OS X. In my case it doesn't. Could it be a permissions problem?? Anyone experienced something similar? Thanks, Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted April 17, 2003 Report Share Posted April 17, 2003 Frank, Can you describe, step-by-step, what you have, what you're doing and what you're seeing? Retrospect can correctly backup and restore hard and soft links. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcswgn Posted April 17, 2003 Report Share Posted April 17, 2003 It says it backs them up, not that it follows them. It should be the case that if you back up a disk with symbolic links on it, then after restoring the disk the same symbolic links are there. By "following" a symbolic link most people mean that it would go to the location pointed to by the link and back up what it finds. This would NOT be good! What you want, and what it does, is backup the link itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted April 17, 2003 Report Share Posted April 17, 2003 Quote: It should be the case that if you back up a disk with symbolic links on it, then after restoring the disk the same symbolic links are there. That is exactly how the program opperates. Otherwise, a full backup/restore made with Retrospect would certainly not boot (since, for example, /var is actually a symlink to /private/var)! Remember that only "Restore entire disk" operations maintain full permissions on Restore (no, you don't have to actually Restore an entire disk, you can Restore to a volume, such as a defined folder). If you're experiencing issues with restored links that may be the cause. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Posted April 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2003 Thanks guys. Right, the links are not followed - but backuped themselves. Well, in my case following was exactly what I wanted, but I could easily find a way around the problem. Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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