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Google Photos and Albums backup with Google Photos Library API
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Symbolic links not supported - Again yes Again! #327

Closed bamsnow closed 2 years ago

bamsnow commented 2 years ago

I am receiving the following symlinks errors:

11-03 13:xx:xx ERROR Symbolic links not supported 11-03 13:xx:xx ERROR Albums are not going to be synced - requires symlinks

The setup is running in pipenv on 20.04, saving databases and logs locally, with the /storage a local directory mounted to a Synology NAS. I think I have checked every box to allow symlinks on the Synology, but perhaps I am missing something? Is there some hidden linux setting to allow symlinks on a mounted SMB share?

gilesknap commented 2 years ago

can you make a symlink in /storage manually from the command line?

bamsnow commented 2 years ago

No, attempting to create a symoblic link from the command line results in error:

ln: failed to create symbolic link 'symlinkedfile.txt': Operation not supported

I am not sure where the permission issue is here.

gilesknap commented 2 years ago

Is your client windows or linux? Windows needs policy changes to support this. Otherwise I don't know - SMB is supposed to support symlinks.

gilesknap commented 2 years ago

I'm going to close this as not a gphotos issue as such. Happy to continue to discuss here if you wish.

bamsnow commented 2 years ago

The client is Ubuntu 20.04 mounting a shared SMB folder from a Synology NAS.

gilesknap commented 2 years ago

I use the same client but nfs for the file server and that works well.

bamsnow commented 2 years ago

Wow @gilesknap based upon your comment I switched the mount to NFS instead of SMB and now symlinks work perfectly. Thank you for you help!

gilesknap commented 2 years ago

no worries

From: bamsnow @.> Sent: 03 November 2021 16:22 To: gilesknap/gphotos-sync @.> Cc: Knap, Giles (DLSLtd,RAL,LSCI) @.>; Mention @.> Subject: Re: [gilesknap/gphotos-sync] Symbolic links not supported - Again yes Again! (Issue #327)

Wow @gilesknaphttps://github.com/gilesknap based upon your comment I switched the mount to NFS instead of SMB and now symlinks work perfectly. Thank you for you help!

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