Is there an existing issue for this?

• There is no existing issue for this feature

What are you currently unable to do

I have it described here - https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/incus-file-pull-not-pulling-file-behind-a-symlink/26337/2

In lxc you could pull a physical file behind a symlink with the -r the -r flag doesn't seem to do that in incus.
I understand not wanting to overload the recurse flag with pulling a physical file, but it would be nice to have a switch to allow that so I'm putting this in as a feature request instead of a bug.

Use case from my discuss post:

I have a script that pulls letsencrypt certs from one instance to another.

Note in the nginx container - this is a symlink - /etc/letsencrypt/live/site-name/fullchain.pem to a file in archive folder

In lxd, this worked and brought over the physical file:

lxc file pull nginx/etc/letsencrypt/live/site-name/fullchain.pem fullchain.pem.new -r

In incus, it pulls over the symlink instead of the physical file:

incus file pull nginx/etc/letsencrypt/live/site-name/fullchain.pem fullchain.pem.new -r

I’m running incus 6.22

What do you think would need to be added

Addition of an extra switch to lxc file pull bring over physical file.