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" <[email protected]> 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. > >
