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Acronis Backup & Recovery: Backup Completes with Warning "Link target was not backed up"

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Warning notifies that symbolic link target is not included in the backup. Specify the symbolic link target under items to backup.

This article applies to:

  • Acronis Backup & Recovery

Symptoms

  1. You create a backup;
  2. Backup completes with warning:
    Link target was not backed up.

    Additional info:  
    Error code: 17
    Module: 4
    LineInfo: ce542e14da203b75
    Fields: Path : C:/Folder1/Folder2, $module : disk_bundle_vs_38350
    Message: Link target was not backed up. 

Cause

Bakup source contains symbolic links. This is expected behaviour designed to warn about backup result.

Solution

If you want to backup the target files/folders of the symbolic link, include them into the backup source. Warning can be ignored then.

More information

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5

 

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