[Backup and NEW backup] what about ignoring symbolic links?

[Teo]

As already required, some kind of filed and folders exclusion could be very useful.
What I'm asking now it to exclude symbolic links from backup.
For sites with large data I often use external services like Amazon S3 mounted with s3fs-fuse or on other volume mounts.
Well, there was the default backup enabled and after some alerts from Netdata I saw the backup process

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/usr/bin/rsync -avzr --no-o --no-g --delete /home/ACCOUNT/ /mnt/bk/cwp_backup/daily/ACCOUNT
working hard, downloading 2TB of files from Amazon S3 filling my local volume (and spending $ for AWS S3 traffic).
What about adding a --no-links to the command, or better, allowing to customize/override the backup script?

[cinique]

Look at "Custom Backup" thread.

[Teo]

Look at "Custom Backup" thread.

Thank you cynique, I've just seen your feedback