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<p>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.</p>
<p>--Jeff</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 8, 2012 7:37 AM, "Doug Laidlaw" <<a href="mailto:laidlaws@hotkey.net.au">laidlaws@hotkey.net.au</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Everybody probably knows this except me :(<br>
<br>
Browsing my new Windows 7 installation, I noticed a lot of symbolic<br>
links, identified by Linux as such. AFAIK, this is new in Win7; it<br>
wasn't there in WinXP, which I have been using.<br>
<br>
I have just used this advantage to get around the following problem:<br>
<br>
Directories with spaces can be excluded in rsnapshot, by replacing the<br>
space with a ?, but a bug in rsync prevents directories with spaces from<br>
being backed up at all. In the parent Windows directory, I created a<br>
symlink without spaces for the inaccessible sub-directory. I was able<br>
to create it and add it to /etc/rsnapshot.conf, and the backup proceeded<br>
to completion. Changing the name of the subdirectory would probably have<br>
made it unusable by its Windows app. If Windows hadn't allowed it, I<br>
would have put the link somewhere in Linux.<br>
<br>
Doug.<br>
<br>
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