Abort if a symlink is accidentally selected for backup

[tschooo]

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Back In Time exits immediately without a message if you select a symbolic link to a directory as the directory to back up. When launched in a terminal window, you can see the following messages:

user@hostname:~$ backintime-qt

Back In Time
Version: 1.5.5

Back In Time comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `backintime --license' for details.

Gtk-Message: 17:26:26.107: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk3-module"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/backintime/qt/manageprofiles/__init__.py", line 684, in btnIncludeAddClicked
    and not (self.cbCopyUnsafeLinks.isChecked()
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'SettingsDialog' object has no attribute 'cbCopyUnsafeLinks'
Aborted

Back In Time 1.5.5 under Linux MX-25.2_Xfce_x64

[buhtz]

Hello tschooo,

thank you very much for the report and the details. I appreciate that.

The issue was reported earlier (#2279), introduced in version 1.5.3 and fixed (PR #2280) in 1.6.0.

I am sorry, but I decided not to backport the fix into 1.5.4. Just don't add symlinks in the include tab, to workaround it.

Please let me know if you have something to add. Feel free to ask if you have further questions.

Thank you
Christian