Re: [BackupPC-users] NTFS symbolic links

Denis Jedig skrev 2011-01-01 21:37:

Am 01.01.2011 20:46, schrieb Erik Hjertén:

I'm using BackupPC to backup a windows Vista computer. I use some
NTFS symbolic links on it

What you mean is probably not symbolic links but NTFS junctions, 
which behave more like UNIX hard links. I believe none of the 
current rsyncd versions will support junctions. The simple 
solution so far has been to exclude junctions from backup:

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/projs/backuppc_guide.html#7Vista

Thanks Denis, but I actually mean symbolic links under NTFS create with e.g "mklink [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] link target" se here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753194%28WS.10%29.aspx

Just excluding the links is not the best solution as I really want to back them up, I have a few thousand of them so it's hard work to re-create them manually in case of horror/disaster. If I could perhaps somehow save the links in a file and then, in case of a needed restore, I could issue a command using the file? I'm at the end of my knowledge here...

Or will some other transfer method in BackupPC take care of things?

Kind regards
/Erik

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