How to prevent qvm-copy from failing due to symlinks?

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1

Hi,

How can I prevent qvm-copy from failing due to symlinks?

Is there a way to simply skip the link and optionally report the skip, instead of failing all other files?

2

qvm-copy has a --ignore-symlinks option. Have you tried using it?

3

@DVM

No but I will!
How did you know that? I am not getting any help:

user@dom0:~ > man qvm-copy
No manual entry for qvm-copy
user@dom0:~ > qvm-copy --help
qvm-copy is not supported in dom0; use qvm-copy-to-vm instead.
user@dom0:~ > man qvm-copy-to-vm
No manual entry for qvm-copy-to-vm
user@dom0:~ > qvm-copy-to-vm --help
usage: /usr/bin/qvm-copy-to-vm dest_vmname file [file]+
4

You mentioned qvm-copy, which is available in qubes but not in dom0.

If you run qvm-copy --help inside a qube terminal, you will see the available options.

5

Indeed.
Thanks.