> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 09:12:54AM -0500, Michael Stowe wrote:
>>
>> > The Windows 7 Junctions (which fail) are important directories in
>> Windows
>> > XP, and I've made an effort to exclude all the junctions from Windows
>> 7.
>>
>> Huh.  XP doesn't have any junction points by default (although it
>> supports
>> them) so I guess you mean you're excluding 7 junctions like "Documents
>> and
>> Settings" instead of backing them up.
>>
>> We just back them up here, because it's simpler and hey, who wants to
>> recreate 50 junction points manually?
>
> How are you backing the junction points up. AFAIK backuppc treats
> those as actual directories and not junction points (i.e. the concept
> of a junction point doesn't exist in backuppc's universe like a
> symbolic link does.) Pooling will make sure that the files under the
> junction point and the real location of those files are pooled

How BackupPC views them is dependent on the backup method; for rsync
backups, they look like symbolic links (which they are) and get backed up
as such.

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