For a while now I’ve been using backup2l for my automated backups, but there where a few things I didn’t like about it. First the fact that all the backups where compressed, which is fine when you are trying to save space but trying to restore something can be a pain. in backup2l’s defense it [...]

I just noticed some strange symlink behavior with my Samba shares on my Debian box. Usually directory symlinks show up as folders on Mac OS X. But today I noticed that they started to show up as file aliases.