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scott182

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May 23, 2004
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Madison, WI
Sorry if this has been covered before; I couldn't find it right away in a search.

For those of you that have already used Time Machine, what does it do with symbolic links (created from a shell "ln -s ....")? I have my entire iTunes library and a couple other large things on an external hard drive with symbolic links on my Mac's internal hard drive pointing to them. I would suspect (and hope) that Time Machine won't actually back up the physical data, but just preserve the symbolic link? Am I right?
 
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