[Mageia-discuss] Symbolic links in Windows 7

[Jeff Robins]

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" <laidlaws at hotkey.net.au> 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.
>
>
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