Any problems with moving a sites directory and linking to it?

[PWSowner]

I have a second hard drive, and rather than use a home2 partition for WHM to automatically use, I have all accounts created in /home and move specific ones to the other drive, then symlink to them.

I create domainx.com at /home/usernamx, then I move the usernamx directory to a directory on the 2nd drive, /mysites/domainx.com, then symlink the new location to where it is expected to be. ln -s /mysites/domainx.com /home/usernamx

The sites directory appears to be at /home/usernamx, but is physically located on a different drive, and in a directory easily recognizable.

I did this a couple months ago with a test site and appears to have no problems. The site works. Email accounts work. Scripts that require the full path work using /home/usernamx/public_html/path/to/script. Testing shows that nothing appears to be affected by the symbolic link, so I'm going to move a few of my sites to the 2nd drive this way.

Question is:
Are there any problems with moving a sites directory and linking to it that I may not have found yet?

Another way to word it is:
Is there any function that can be affected by the directory not physically being where it's supposed to be?

 

[chirpy]

The only thing I can think of is cPanel backups - do they backup the symlinked directory or just the symlink file?

 

[PWSowner]

Backup doesn't follow symbolic links, but that isn't a possible problem because I use my own backup script. That's one of the reasons I'm doing this.

My script backs up the home directory daily, and will be backing up my other directory weekly, but the mail folders in it will be hourly.