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Finding junction files in Windows 7 and exclude them with DeltaCopy

January 10, 2011 /

Windows 7 has a sort of hard link, a junction file, which it uses to link the old location “Documents and Settings” to /Users/. Because of all this junctioning, you can’t just copy files with a Cygwin program like Deltacopy, because it will hang in infinite loop and copy a whole lot of things twice.

To identify junction files, run:

dir /AL /s

Here is an example exclude list for deltacopy for a standard windows 7 machine. Path names are specified assuming every user dir is supplied as separate dir to copy (because there are references to root, like ‘/Mijn documenten’:

--delete-excluded --exclude "/Application Data" --exclude "**/Downloads" --exclude "**/AppData/Local/Application Data" --exclude "/Local Settings" --exclude "**/Temporary Internet Files" --exclude "**/Flash Player" --exclude "**/Temp" --exclude "**/VirtualStore" --exclude "NTUSER.DAT*" --exclude "UsrClass.dat*" --exclude "ntuser.dat*" --exclude "parent.lock" --exclude "/Mijn documenten"  --exclude "/Mijn afbeeldingen" --exclude "/Mijn muziek" --exclude "/Mijn video's"

The ‘Mijn Documenten’ and such is a link to other dirs, so it doesn’t skip them. Be sure not to use these statements when running this on Windows XP…

Setting up Rsync daemon

July 15, 2009 /

What can you do when you want to backup your entire machine to a remote location but only have non-root shell access? You use rsyncd.

On the server you need to configure a module in /etc/rsyncd.conf: 

[module_name]
uid=0
gid=0
path=/path
transfer logging=no
read only=no

Then you need to rsync using a destination like user@host::module_name/

To make it work, you first need to set up a tunnel using SSH, because the rsync port (873) is not open in the firewall, most likely. So, you do this: 

ssh -N -L 873:localhost:873 user@host

I wrote a script to automate this all. Perhaps I will follow-up on this post sometime and post it.

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