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[BackupPC-users] BackupPC and Windows junction points

2011-02-07 13:32:20
Subject: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC and Windows junction points
From: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
To: General list for user discussion <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:30:22 -0500
There was a thread a little while back warning about junction point
and Windows Vista/7. Also, the Wikki
(http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Common_backup_excludes)
talks about the need to exclude Junction points to avoid duplicate
backup trees.

But it seems to me that at least when using cygwin rsync, that
junction points are treated as symlinks so that there doesn't appear
to be any duplication in backups.

The only issue may be in restoring in that cygwin rsync won't
distinguish between true symlinks and junction points which are
different animals in the Windows world.

Am I missing something?

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