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app/sbin/borgpush

@@ -10,13 +10,18 @@ HOSTNAME=$(hostname)
 DATE=$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S)
 ARCHIVE_NAME="${HOSTNAME}-${DATE}"
 
-shopt -s globstar
+# Resolve symlinks externally and feed real paths to borg via --paths-from-stdin.
-borg create \
+# - First find: locates all current* symlinks under /BACKUP and resolves them with realpath.
+# - Second find: locates all regular current* files under /BACKUP (non-symlinks).
+# - sort -u: deduplicates in case a resolved symlink target overlaps with a regular file.
+{
+    find /BACKUP -name 'current*' -type l -print0 | xargs -0 -I {} realpath {}
+    find /BACKUP -name 'current*' ! -type l
+} | sort -u | borg create \
     --verbose \
     --stats \
     --compression lz4 \
-    --follow-symlinks \
+    --paths-from-stdin \
-    ::$ARCHIVE_NAME \
+    ::$ARCHIVE_NAME
-    /BACKUP/**/current*
 
 echo "Backup completed: $ARCHIVE_NAME"