Unable to exclude symlinks

client
1

Hi,

I have some linux clients that have symlinked folders inside folders to backup. I want to exclude some (not all) of those symlinks, but urbackup is ignoring the exclusions. Suppose i’m doing a backup of /home folder. Inside /home I have a symlink:

/home/shared → /media/vmbackups/shared/

I want to exclude /home/shared, I tried:

/home/shared/*
*/home/shared/*
home/shared/*

These didn’t work. The next ones did:

*/shared/*
/media/vmbackups/shared/*

The first one would exclude other shared folders, which is unwanted.
The second one I think is counter-intuitive and also I was unable to find I have to exclude the destination folders of symlinks and not the symlink itself on the documentation.

Thanks!

2

Try /home/shared (without any wildcard).

3

I’m sorry it didn’t work.

4

Yeah, it seems to follow the symlink before excluding it. Will be fixed.

5

Thanks!