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Werk #11341: Make omd restore work with hardlinks in local dir

Component Site management
Title Make omd restore work with hardlinks in local dir
Date Aug 10, 2020
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
2.0.0i1 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT
1.6.0p16 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

In case a backup file was created from a site which contained hardlinks in the local directory, the restore mechnism will crash with the following message: KeyError: "linkname 'SITE-NAME/local/LINK-NAME' not found" This werk will enable resolving hard links which reside under the local directory.

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