My mistake. I forget the rar options used in the action scripts and the reasons I used them. I had to take a look myself to remember.
In the script backup2usb-backup or backup2ws-backup I use the option -ol
# man rar
-ol Save symbolic links as the link instead of the file.
One example of why this is used instead of following links is due to the primary ibay:
[root@test usbdisk]# ll /home/e-smith/files
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Dec 14 15:39 primary -> /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary
Both the link and the source are under the directory /home/e-smith. If we have /home/e-smith as a source for backup, and we followed symlinks, we would back up the primary ibay twice:
/home/e-smith/files/primary -> /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary
/home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary
I could remove the option and set an exclusion, however, I believe for the majority of SME Server users the current settings are the better default.
In your case you have added a custom link and mount point. The default options will back up and retain the link. All that is remaining is for you to add the custom mount point to the backup sources to have this custom store backed up. In your case you would append /mnt/array2/ibays/projects or to back up the entire array, /mnt/array2.
Regards,
Darrell