Backup consideration: Links and snapshot

Hobo Copy

HoboCopy is a backup/copy tool. It uses the Volume Shadow Service (VSS) to "snapshot" the disk before copying. It then copies from the snapshot rather than the "live" disk.

Nathan’s Blog - Wired World Wonderings » Symlinks in Windows

be careful not to SHIFT-delete a junction point or it’s parents - this will delete the files in the actual directory

:: Shell-Shocked :: Windows Symbolic and Hard Links

On Windows it's another story.

Shadow Wolf's Den - How To Use Hardlinks And Junctions In Windows

In the modern Windows platform, it is possible to create hardlinks of files and directories. The ability to create file hardlinks is built into XP/W2k with the program fsutil.exe.

NTFS Hard Links, Directory Junctions, and Windows Shortcuts

In this article we will show how to create symbolic and hard links programmatically.

robocopy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robocopy does not preserve Hardlinks

Tools and utilities for Windows

A console backup/archive tool for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003. It uses the same backup methods as the ntbackup or robocopy programs

An intelligent backup system for Windows, part 4

Hard linking the unchanged files