[BackupPC-users] BackupPC and Windows junction points

2011-02-07 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC and Windows junction points

2011-02-07 Thread Michael Stowe
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC and Windows junction points

2011-02-07 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Michael Stowe wrote at about 12:44:51 -0600 on Monday, February 7, 2011: 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

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC and Windows junction points

2011-02-07 Thread John Rouillard
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 01:30:22PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: 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

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC and Windows junction points

2011-02-07 Thread Michael Stowe
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 01:30:22PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: 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

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC and Windows junction points

2011-02-07 Thread Michael Stowe
Thanks for the additional clarification! Now just to be extra certain, am I correct in my observation that while Win7 add lots of junction points (which as we both agree are treated as symbolic links), it does not add any hard links. Yes, I'm not aware of *any* hard links used in any Windows OS

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC and Windows junction points

2011-02-07 Thread John Rouillard
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 01:56:08PM -0600, Michael Stowe wrote: On a side note, I *am* looking for a good way to cleanly list all the junction points so that I can periodically catalog them for potential future restore. Note I tried dir /aL /s but it doesn't give a very clean listing plus

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC and Windows junction points

2011-02-07 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
John Rouillard wrote at about 23:44:48 + on Monday, February 7, 2011: On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 01:56:08PM -0600, Michael Stowe wrote: On a side note, I *am* looking for a good way to cleanly list all the junction points so that I can periodically catalog them for potential future