Hi Jeffrey,

Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> Does BackupPC know how to treat NTFS junction points.
> They are analogous to *nix symbolic links but only work on
> directories.
> 
> Based on a little test, it seems like BackupPC does not know about
> them since it seems to have copied over all the data -- i.e. it
> treated the junction as a real directory rather than as a
> symbolic-type link. The attribute file also seems to treat it like a
> normal directory. Now to be fair, rsync does the same, so some of this
> may be an rsync artifact.
> 
> Also, my understanding is that Vista introduced a notion of Unix-like
> symbolic links. Does anyone know whether they are treated properly by
> BackupPC? 
> (I don't have Vista around to test but it would even be interesting to
> know how rsync treats them).

I'm not sure about NTFS junction points in general, but in my tests the 
new Vista junction points broke rsync by recursively creating extra-long 
pathnames. I wrote excludes that would get rid of all the ones Vista 
creates for you. See this section on my BackupPC Windows guide for the 
generic excludes: 
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/projs/backuppc_guide.html#Vista

Cody

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