Symlinks with Cloud Sync

TrueNAS General
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I have been working on setting up TrueNAS 25.04.2.3 for backups (among other things) as well as doing offsite backups to a cloud server. For that I am testing with Backblaze B2. I have a Cloud Sync task which works. I can backup NAS file to B2 and restore them. I even have encryption working.

However, I noticed that symbolic links don’t get backed up to B2 and I can’t figure out how to get that working. I have ‘follow Symlinks’ off (I need the actual links backed up). So none of my symlinks get backed up and of course they don’t get restored. It looks like rclone needs the --links option.

I can’t find any what to enable this (which I would have expected to the default). How do I get this working? A backup that doesn’t backup everything isn’t much of a backup.

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Unless there’s a place to add auxiliary parameters, you can’t.

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Also noticed that owner/group/mode are not preserved, nor empty dirs created even with that checkbox checked saying to create them (maybe it means something else). But I do have a workaround for all of that: automatically create a script that can be used to restore the missing meta data. And make sure it is included in the offsite backups. It is a bit of a kludge, but seems to work.