[Discuss] On-site backups revisited - rsnapshot vs. CrashPlan

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 02/21/2013 04:00 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 02/21/2013 03:28 PM, Rich Pieri wrote:
>> On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:57:07 -0500
>> Tom Metro <tmetro+blu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, at least as far back as NT 4.0 (I used them via 3rd party tools),
>>> but as far as I know they've never been supported by the Windows GUI,
>> Depends on what you mean by "supported". Both GUI and CLI APIs follow
>> hard links and junctions just fine.
>>
>> Explorer does not have a fuction for creating links and junctions which
>> is probably just as well. It would lead to inconsistent behavior
>> between NTFS and FAT file systems.
>>
>> In Windows 7, maybe Vista as well, there is a MKLINK command which is
>> the functional equivalent to the Unix ln command.
>>
>>> and I find it quite plausible that rsync doesn't support links on
>>> NTFS, even though it could.
>> rsync does support hard and soft links on NTFS when compiled with
>> Cygwin. I'm not sure about rsync compiled with MinGW; I don't use that.
>>
>>
>>> You get similar weird behavior if you try and use hard links on NTFS.)
>> That's due to sloppy programming in the application.
>>
> AFAIK the Windows mklink command creates a symbolic link not a hard
> link. This is a big difference.
>
I stand corrected. mklink creates a symbolic link by default, but can
create a hard link using the /h option.

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