When the following message is displayed while you are creating a backup
WARNING: Link /folder_1/folder_2/…/folder_n not following,
then BackWPup has found a so-called “symlink” and will exclude it from the backup to prevent problems. The inclusion of symlinks in your backup could result in an endless loop.
Symlinks are not real directories; they are merely references to a directory located elsewhere. Find out more about symlinks here.
You can do below to prevent this warning:
- Manually exclude the directory indicated in the warning from the backup if a backup of this directory is not mandatory (which would be the case for, e.g., the log directory).
Refer to this document for instructions on how to exclude files and directories: How to exclude files and directories
