[BackupPC-users] backing up Windows 7 libraries

2011-01-07 Thread Frank J . Gómez
Hello, I'm using smb to back up a Windows 7 machine. I noticed that Windows 7 treats My Pictures, My Videos, etc. differently than regular folders. They are almost like symlinks that are linked to "real" folders on the filesystem. (It took me a while to figure out why some of these folders were

[BackupPC-users] backing up Windows 7 libraries

2011-01-13 Thread Rick Brown
Hi Frank, Windows 7 is a little tricky to the actual directories with internal aliases. If you go to the "My Videos" shortcut, you'll find the actual path is something like C:\Users\\Videos - or something close to this. I could not find a single canned backup application that could backup a user