{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bit-team/backintime/issues/338","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bit-team/backintime/issues/338/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bit-team/backintime/issues/338/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bit-team/backintime/issues/338/events","html_url":"https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/338","id":110869452,"number":338,"title":"symlinks should point inside backup, not to original","user":{"login":"Germar","id":2731999,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2731999?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Germar","html_url":"https://github.com/Germar","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Germar/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Germar/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Germar/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Germar/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Germar/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Germar/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Germar/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Germar/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Germar/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bit-team/backintime/labels/New","name":"New","color":"ddffdd"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bit-team/backintime/labels/Undecided","name":"Undecided","color":"ffdddd"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bit-team/backintime/labels/Wishlist","name":"Wishlist","color":"ffdddd"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2015-10-11T17:15:15Z","updated_at":"2015-10-11T21:34:59Z","closed_at":null,"body":"i have a lot of symlinks in my home folder. i do a backup on an external ext4 harddisk.\n\ni often don't notice if i am clicking a symlink or an normal folder.\n\nif i see i have lost a file, i go to back in time, to my symlinked documents folder, and i see the file is not there. i have to remember the original position of the folder(often i need to look long for it) and go to that.\nit took me 6 months to notice this behavior, i always tough the backup was not there. it is VERY anyiong and novice user will be stumped by it.\n\nsymlinks in the backup should point to the folder in the backup, NOT to the original folder!\n\nps: sry for the angry voice, but this problem just frustrates me a lot.\n\n\nEDIT1\nSTEPS TO REPRODUCE:\n\n1) MAKE A BACKUP WITCH BACKINTIME OF YOUR /HOME\n2) EDIT SOMEFILES IN SOMEFOLDER\n3) MAKE A BACKUP WITH BACKINTIME AGAIN\n4) ADD A SYMLINK TO \"SOMEFOLDER\" AND EDIT SOME FILES IN IT\n5) MAKE A BACKUP AGAIN\n6) TRY RESTORING IT. NOTICE THE DIFFERENT BEHAVIOUR IF YOU GO TROUGH THE SYMLINK AND TROUGH THE ORIGINAL POSITION.\n\nEDIT2\nthis bug only applies for absolute symlinks."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bit-team/backintime/issues/comments/147248010","html_url":"https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/338#issuecomment-147248010","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bit-team/backintime/issues/338","id":147248010,"user":{"login":"Germar","id":2731999,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2731999?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Germar","html_url":"https://github.com/Germar","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Germar/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Germar/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Germar/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Germar/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Germar/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Germar/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Germar/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Germar/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Germar/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-10-11T21:34:59Z","updated_at":"2015-10-11T21:34:59Z","body":"(by danleweb)\nA symlink just point to a path. If the symlink (/home/user/A/link.txt) is a full path (starts with '/'; ex: '/home/user/B/a.txt) then it is absolute. If not it is relative (ex: '../B/a.txt)."}}