Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows Backup Junction Point / Filesystem Question

2011-01-31 12:38:08
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Windows Backup Junction Point / Filesystem Question
From: Randy Katz <rkatz AT simplicityhosting DOT com>
To: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:35:32 -0800
On 1/31/2011 9:24 AM, John Drescher wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Randy Katz
> <rkatz AT simplicityhosting DOT com>  wrote:
>> On 1/31/2011 9:08 AM, John Drescher wrote:
>>>> John, thanks, but this was already addressed to the list, using the onefs
>>>> option to yes takes care of
>>>> the issue, and no, there is no other target drive other then "C:".
>>>>
>>> My point is no the onefs option does not properly fix the issue. If
>>> the target of the junction is on C: you do NOT want to set onefs=no
>>> because the data in the junction will be backed up twice then.
>>>
>> Sorry, onefs=no is what I meant.
>>
> This is generally still the wrong thing to do. Its better to include
> the target of the junction in the fileset instead of backing up
> through the juction but I guess it would work. This will cause you
> problems on disaster recovery because the junction will not
> automatically remade. If you use this method you will have to recreate
> the junctions before the restore instead of recreating junctions after
> with the onefs=yes method.
>
>
ok, thanks.

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