I made this one from Linux. I can't even see them in Windows. They seem to count as hidden files.
Doug. On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 15:08:06 -0700 Jeff Robins <[email protected]> wrote: > NTFS has had symbolic links for a long time. I think since at least > win2k, but no one used them, even MS. I don't think you could even > make them with the normal tools. > > --Jeff > On Jul 8, 2012 7:37 AM, "Doug Laidlaw" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Everybody probably knows this except me :( > > > > Browsing my new Windows 7 installation, I noticed a lot of symbolic > > links, identified by Linux as such. AFAIK, this is new in Win7; it > > wasn't there in WinXP, which I have been using. > > > > I have just used this advantage to get around the following problem: > > > > Directories with spaces can be excluded in rsnapshot, by replacing > > the space with a ?, but a bug in rsync prevents directories with > > spaces from being backed up at all. In the parent Windows > > directory, I created a symlink without spaces for the inaccessible > > sub-directory. I was able to create it and add it > > to /etc/rsnapshot.conf, and the backup proceeded to completion. > > Changing the name of the subdirectory would probably have made it > > unusable by its Windows app. If Windows hadn't allowed it, I would > > have put the link somewhere in Linux. > > > > Doug. > > > > > > > !DSPAM:4ffa401573874302236428!
