There has been a bunch of discussion, and some bugs, about bacula's handling of MS Windows junction points. I can't tell what the current status is. Does anybody know?
3 possibilities that occur to me are 1. bacula descends into mount points. In the case of Vista, this seems likely to create an infinite loop. 2. bacula skips mount points completely, not even recording anything for them. 3. bacula records mount points as mount points, restores them properly, and does not descend into them. 3 seems like the best behavior. 1 and 2 have both been reported(!). Kern's response to http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1267 seems to indicate he think it works, i.e. something like 3. The most topical thing I've found is http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-de...@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00056.html which provides a list of stanard junction points to exclude for Vista. Junction points have been a feature of Windows for quite awhile, but Vista seems to be new in making extensive use of them. Thanks. Ross P.S. Windows now has at least 3 different link-like technologies: link files aka Windows shell shortcuts or .lnk files, junction points, and DFS mounts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_reparse_point indicates a blizzard of link or mount-like windows technologies. Helpfully, the terminology keeps changing. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb524801(VS.85).aspx says "In earlier documentation, DFS links were called junction points." Since DFS links can span physical file systems while junction points (in Vista) can not, these are definitely 2 different tools. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
