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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] Symbolic links in Windows 7</H1>
<B>Jeff Robins</B>
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<I>Mon Jul 9 00:08:06 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>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" <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">laidlaws at hotkey.net.au</A>> wrote:
><i> Everybody probably knows this except me :(
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</I>><i> Browsing my new Windows 7 installation, I noticed a lot of symbolic
</I>><i> links, identified by Linux as such. AFAIK, this is new in Win7; it
</I>><i> wasn't there in WinXP, which I have been using.
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</I>><i> I have just used this advantage to get around the following problem:
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</I>><i> Directories with spaces can be excluded in rsnapshot, by replacing the
</I>><i> space with a ?, but a bug in rsync prevents directories with spaces from
</I>><i> being backed up at all. In the parent Windows directory, I created a
</I>><i> symlink without spaces for the inaccessible sub-directory. I was able
</I>><i> to create it and add it to /etc/rsnapshot.conf, and the backup proceeded
</I>><i> to completion. Changing the name of the subdirectory would probably have
</I>><i> made it unusable by its Windows app. If Windows hadn't allowed it, I
</I>><i> would have put the link somewhere in Linux.
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</I>><i> Doug.
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