symlinks, hardlinks

[Gavin Carr]

Hi Dawid,

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 01:14:31PM +0200, Dawid Marcin Grzesiak wrote:
> I wonder how brackup deals with symlinks and hardlinks while backup is
> targeting to FTP.
> Does it preserve them after restoring?

Definitely handles symlinks and restores them properly. I don't believe
it handles hard links. That is, it will only store one copy of the data
(since it's identical content), but when you restore you'll get two
unlinked files back.

Cheers,
Gavin