It has the same issue with UNIX mount points. Such is the nature of rsync. I have managed to avoid Vista sofar, but I guess I may need to build a system sometime.
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). > > Thanks > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
