[Box Backup] Symlink error in bbackupd?

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Hans-Joachim,

On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Hans-Joachim Baader wrote:

>> Box Backup is working as designed. Backup utilities should not
>> rewrite any data. If you backup a symlink, you should get it back
>> exactly when you restore.
>
> It looks to me as if Box Backup actually followed the symlink (perhaps 
> only in the restore command). Could you please check that? When looking 
> with bbackupquery it looks normal. The symlink looks like a file and 
> "get" rerieves exactly the symlink. But perhaps "restore" gets confused.

You are right, I just verified this bug. I'll write a test for it and fix 
it in trunk.

Cheers, Chris.
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