diff options
| author | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
| commit | 1be510f9529cb082f802408b472a77d074b394c0 (patch) | |
| tree | b175f9d5fcb107576dabc768e7bd04d4a3e491a0 /zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120708/5d791e4f | |
| parent | fa5098cf210b23ab4f419913e28af7b1b07dafb2 (diff) | |
| download | archives-master.tar archives-master.tar.gz archives-master.tar.bz2 archives-master.tar.xz archives-master.zip | |
Diffstat (limited to 'zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120708/5d791e4f')
| -rw-r--r-- | zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120708/5d791e4f/attachment-0001.html | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120708/5d791e4f/attachment.html | 23 |
2 files changed, 46 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120708/5d791e4f/attachment-0001.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120708/5d791e4f/attachment-0001.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..df60f89d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120708/5d791e4f/attachment-0001.html @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +<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> +</blockquote></div> diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120708/5d791e4f/attachment.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120708/5d791e4f/attachment.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..df60f89d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120708/5d791e4f/attachment.html @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +<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> +</blockquote></div> |