Comment 2 for bug 486662

I do not know should this fix work still with 11.10, but I have noticed with that Ubuntu version (fully ugraded) that the deja-dup is not following symlinks. Unfortunately, I found that out in a hard way by I losting some files that were not properly backed up due this bug...

I have setup my home folder (EXT4 fs) to contain symlinks to another partition which is shared between Ubuntu and Windows (EXT3 fs). Deja-dup seems not to follow symlinks e.g. my home folder contains ~/Documents that points to /media/DATA/Documents folder, but the content of Documents folder are not included to the backup.

I have just defined my home folder to be backed up and the backup contains only files that are not symlinked. I think that I should I include explicity the /media/DATA with subfolders (which are symlinked to my home folder) to the backup definition.

If I include the symlinked folders to my deja-dup configuration then the symlinked folder are properly backed up. So I need to explicity define ~/Documents folder and also another symlinked folders.