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

On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:24:10 +0100, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> 
 
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.

I couldn't find this in the manual, but is it even possible to  
backup/restore a Windows junction point? I.e. the junction point itself,  
not the data it points to.

If not, what is the correct procedure to do this within Windows?
How do you list the complete filesystem so that everything shows, are  
there specialist tools for this? (it appears to be impossible to access  
some dirs even if using console/administrator and explorer/DOS show a  
different view of the fs)

Or are you supposed to be resigned to using the built-in full image (i.e.  
space wasting) backup in W2K8? How do other backup solutions handle this?

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