Linux Client: Permissions

Hello,

I am experiencing some problems with the file permissions under Linux.
I intend to backup the machine as completely as possible. Thus, I backup / and exclude

/mnt/*;/dev/*;/proc/*;/sys/*

Unfortunately, I still experience problems with permissions:

2015-06-06 18:13:28: ERROR: No permission to stat "/usr/lib/llvm-3.5/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Release/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Release/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Debug+Asserts/build/Release/build/Release/build/Release/build/Release/lib/python2.7/site-packages/lldb/libLLVM-3.5.so.1"

This is caused by a link-loop I fear:

root@homeserver:/usr/lib/llvm-3.5/build/Debug+Asserts/build# ll
total 728
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root   4096 Feb 18 06:39 ./
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root   4096 Sep  1  2014 ../
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root   4096 Feb 18 06:39 autoconf/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  48761 Feb 12 18:56 config.status*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 579945 Feb 12 18:56 configure*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      2 Aug 28  2014 Debug+Asserts -> ../
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     10 Aug 28  2014 include -> ../include/

How can I prevent this problem?

Greetings,
Hendrik

I’ve written about this in some detail here: Option to unfollow symlinks in Linux backups? - I’ve got a workaround mentioned there, should you be interested. Please respond on that thread.