C-Duv/sysadmin-scripts

duplicityBackup: Follow symbolic links declared in configuration file

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Duplicity doesn't follow symbolic links (that's the way it is). To backup a directory, one must use the absolute real path in configuration file.

As long as Duplicity doesn't provide a solution (cf. https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/721599), it is be possible for the script to accept symbolic links in configuration file and expand them to realpath at runtime. That would be useful in some cases.