diff --git a/databus-release.sh b/databus-release.sh
index 6cf8260698f538a19c2b0361c4c15ed08bd03cba..56867341422231424d9e4d9cc7ad1f8ff36af31a 100755
--- a/databus-release.sh
+++ b/databus-release.sh
@@ -22,17 +22,19 @@ fi
 
 #/data/extraction/wikidumps/enwiki/20191001
 
-git clone "https://github.com/dbpedia/databus-maven-plugin.git" $DATABUSDIR &>/dev/null
-cd $DATABUSDIR
-git pull
+# git clone "https://github.com/dbpedia/databus-maven-plugin.git" $DATABUSDIR &>/dev/null
+# cd $DATABUSDIR
+# git pull
 
-# copy
+# creates links in databus dir
 # iterate all .ttl.bz2 files
 # uncomment for testing
 for path in $(find "$EXTRACTIONBASEDIR" -name "*.ttl.bz2" | sort); do
-   mapAndCopy $path
+   mapAndLink $path
 done
 
+exit
+
 # deploy
 cd $DATABUSDIR/dbpedia/$GROUP;
 mvn versions:set -DnewVersion=$(ls * | grep '^[0-9]\{4\}.[0-9]\{2\}.[0-9]\{2\}$' | sort -u  | tail -1);
diff --git a/functions.sh b/functions.sh
index 317b9057ce87088de182f3c5216516cb2faff14d..78284a4097845c982933df6d5bbf6c00f63ad73c 100755
--- a/functions.sh
+++ b/functions.sh
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ CONFIGDIR="$ROOT/extractionConfiguration"
 DIEFDIR="$ROOT/marvin-extraction/extraction-framework"
 LOGDIR="$ROOT/marvin-extraction/logs/$(date +%Y-%m-%d)"  && mkdir -p $LOGDIR
 EXTRACTIONBASEDIR="$ROOT/marvin-extraction/wikidumps" && mkdir -p $EXTRACTIONBASEDIR
-DATABUSDIR="$ROOT/marvin-extraction/databus-maven-plugin"
+DATABUSDIR="$ROOT/databus-poms"
 
 ##############
 # functions
@@ -148,7 +148,9 @@ mapNamesToDatabus() {
     esac
 }
 
-mapAndCopy() {
+# creates links in databus dir
+mapAndLink() {
+	# each individual file
 	path=$1
 
 	# split filename
@@ -195,7 +197,8 @@ mapAndCopy() {
 
 	# copy
 	# TODO enable after testing
-	cp -n "$path" "$targetFolder/$targetFile"
+	#cp -n "$path" "$targetFolder/$targetFile"
+	ln -s "$path" "$targetFolder/$targetFile"
 	echo -e "< $path\n> $targetFolder/$targetFile\n----------------------"
 
 }