Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:05:56 -0700 From: "Pat Maddox" <pergesu@gmail.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: /home is symlinked to /usr/home - question about backups Message-ID: <810a540e0603191605p3e74376csa12475dd14d36a3@mail.gmail.com>
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I got a dedicated server a while ago, and it came with /home symlinked to /usr/home. I'm not entirely sure why, to tell you the truth, but it's never posed a problem. However if I run rsync -avz to back up my server, it creates something like this: /backup/march/19/home -> /usr/home So if I were to go to /backup/march/19 and rm -rf * wouldn't it go and delete everything in /usr/home? That's obviously not my intended result. I've read all the symlink options in man rsync but honestly am not sure what it is that I need to do. Ideally I'd like to have symlinks reference the relative file..so something like /backup/march/19/home -> /backup/march/19/usr/home That way I don't lose all my stuff if I remove the file from backup.=20 Right now I'm just ignoring /home when I rsync, but it makes me kind of worried that if I ever backup without ignoring /home and then delete my backup I might lose my live data...I could really use some info. Pat
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