Am 01.01.2011 21:59, schrieb Erik Hjertén:

> Thanks Denis, but I actually mean symbolic links under NTFS
> create with e.g "mklink [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] link target"
> [...]
> 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.

Unfortunately, saving NTFS metadata with rsync has always been a 
pain in the ass, as the protocol simply was not designed for most 
of it. While symbolic links and junctions would fit in rather 
easily, to my best knowledge they are not implemented.

You could build some cludge using dir /S /AL (which will give you 
symbolic links as well as junctions in the output, but 
unfortunately it will come in a way which is poorly suitable for 
scripting it back into shape. Alternatively, you could write some 
powershell lines using Get-ChildItem, checking for the 
ReparsePoint attribute and using Get-ReparsePoint for retrieving 
the destination. The people from the Windows PowerShell 
newsgroups/lists should be able to help you here.

References:

<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee176841.aspx>
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/817794/find-out-whether-a-file-is-a-symlink-in-powershell>
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1222226/how-do-i-find-out-what-volume-a-given-ntfs-path-is-on-when-using-mount-points>

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

No way.

Denis

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