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.
