From 1be510f9529cb082f802408b472a77d074b394c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicolas Vigier Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:46:12 +0000 Subject: Add zarb MLs html archives --- .../20120708/5d791e4f/attachment-0001.html | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++ .../attachments/20120708/5d791e4f/attachment.html | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+) create mode 100644 zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120708/5d791e4f/attachment-0001.html create mode 100644 zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120708/5d791e4f/attachment.html (limited to 'zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120708/5d791e4f') 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 @@ +

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@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.
+
+
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 @@ +

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@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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