Can't restore from symlinks

Bug #793231 reported by Kieran Hogg
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Déjà Dup
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deja-dup (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: deja-dup

I have some folders in my home folder symlinked to a mounted partition, one example:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 kieran kieran 30 2010-10-10 17:17 Documents -> /home/kieran/Dropbox/Documents
lrwxrwxrwx 1 kieran kieran 24 2010-06-08 19:03 Dropbox -> /media/Shared/My Dropbox

I have added Documents explicitly to the include list to backup. Backing up works fine (deja-dup follows it and backs up from its full path), but if I restore from within /home/kieran/Documents it says the file is not in the backups, if I restore from the /media path, it asks for my password then fails as per bug #568559.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: deja-dup 18.1.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jun 5 20:05:52 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: deja-dup
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-25 (71 days ago)

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Kieran Hogg (xerosis) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Michael Terry (mterry) wrote :

Symlink handling was improved in 20.0 (available in Ubuntu 11.10), I believe this is fixed. Let me know if not.

Changed in deja-dup:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Fix Released
Changed in deja-dup (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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