I have a 4 gig and a 27 gig hard drive on my web server. Everything is
ran off of the 4 gig hard drive. The 27 gig hard drive is basically for
storing daily backups (Up to 2 weeks worth).
Is there a way to tell zip to treat all shortcuts (links) as only links,
not as files and directories?
Example, when I go to zip a directory that has multiple links it adds
all the directories and files under the links as well. This makes for a
rather large zip file since I can have 10-20 copies of directories and
files because of all the links I have. I basically want to make mirror
copy of a directory structure in a zip file. That way I can restore it
in a directory on my 27 gig hard drive and move the necessary
directories, sub directories, files, and links to the 4 gig hard drive
(thus restoring what was messed up or lost).
When I am done, I will have a zip file for each directory on the root
level. That way I only would have to restore what I need. I need to be
able to restore all the links as links, not as actual files and
directories.
If this is not possible with ZIP, could you possibly suggest a good free
utility that I can use to accomplish this. I just want to use zip since
I can also open the file on a windows based machine upon need and also
for the space savings.
Thanks in advance
Mike
