On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:34:32 -0400 andre999 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Doug Laidlaw a écrit : > > I made this one from Linux. I can't even see them in Windows. They > > seem to count as hidden files. > > > > msw has had symbolic links not recognisable as such by Linux for a > long time, by default hidden under msw. > What you observe seems to indicate that msw7 has migrated to > unix-style symbolic links. > Interesting. Gradually Microsoft is adopting more and more unix (and > Linux-compatible) features. > > (BTW, it would be easier for others to respond point by point if you > and others didn't top post.) Normally I don't. But the first reply was top-posted, so I kept going in the same direction. Doug. > > > 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. > >>> > > You can also rename directories in msw, to remove spaces, or just > make shorter. > >>> Doug. > >>> > >>>
