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Key: MDL-9036
Type: Improvement Improvement
Status: Closed Closed
Resolution: Won't Fix
Priority: Minor Minor
Assignee: Eloy Lafuente (stronk7)
Reporter: John Isner
Votes: 0
Watchers: 4
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Backup/restore should respect symbolic links

Created: 26/Mar/07 04:58 AM   Updated: 03/Jan/08 02:29 AM
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Component/s: Backup
Affects Version/s: 1.6.3
Fix Version/s: None

Participants: Eloy Lafuente (stronk7), John Isner, Martin Dougiamas, Petr Skoda and Timothy Allen
Security Level: None
Affected Branches: MOODLE_16_STABLE


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When backing up courses, symbolically linked folders are included as native folders, so that each course backup includes the whole symbolically linked folder with the actual files, duplicating the same files for each course. This defeats a technique used by some for sharing files among courses. In this technique, the administrator creates a symbolic link to a subdirectory of Site files within the Files area of each course (see discussion http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=65049). Can the default behavior of Backup be changed to preserve symbolic links?

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Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) made changes - 27/Mar/07 05:48 AM
Field Original Value New Value
Status Open [ 1 ] Closed [ 6 ]
Resolution Won't Fix [ 2 ]
Martin Dougiamas made changes - 28/Mar/07 03:28 PM
Resolution Won't Fix [ 2 ]
Fix Version/s 1.9 [ 10190 ]
Status Closed [ 6 ] Reopened [ 4 ]
Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) made changes - 03/Jan/08 02:29 AM
Status Reopened [ 4 ] Closed [ 6 ]
Resolution Won't Fix [ 2 ]
Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) made changes - 03/Jan/08 02:29 AM
Fix Version/s 1.9 [ 10190 ]