Re: [Duplicity-talk] Avoid following symbolic links

[Michael A. Sidenius]

Quoting Cristian KLEIN <address@hidden>:

> Michael A. Sidenius a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > Would it be possible to make Duplicity avoid following symbolic (soft)
> > links?
> >
> > The best solution would of cause be a command line option, but I could
> > live with a local patched version, if someone could point me to where to
> > do the change.
>
> Without patching, you could run "find -type l" to get all symlinks, then
> exclude them using --exclude-filelist or --exclude-filelist-stdin.
Good idea. Thanks for the input. Will be heavy on the processing  
though, since it need to be updated every time I run Duplicity. My  
general Duplicity script has the following syntax:

duplicity "bla..bla" $INCLUDE_GLOBBING_FILELIST --exclude /  /

so I have a whole bunch of backup sets in glob files, which I can put  
in the include globbing variable. I have 3T of space, so running find  
from / every time I do a backup of a small subset would be rather  
overkill, IMHO. If Duplicity could exclude the (few) soft links it  
finds in the subset from the glob file, I believe it would be more  
"light weigth".
-Michael