Just a small recap of where i'm coming from.
At work we have hundreds of computers that staff use.
Normally we say any data that is important to you, schedules, music, videos of corporate events, ... goes on the H drive which is mapped to that user's name on our 100+ Terabyte Tegile SAN with compression and Deduplication which for all intents and purposes is infinite.
Sometimes staff doesn't place important stuff on the H drive and instead puts it on the C drive which eventually dies.
I say something like;
"YOUR DATA IS GONE! IT'S JUST GONE! GAME OVER!"
And then I remembered something from years ago called Symbolic links.
And so here is the actual question of what i want to do.
mklink /J "C:\Users\awest\Documents" "H:\Documents_Backup"
If I were to type that would it create a copy/backup of everything in Adam West's Documents on the H:\Document_Backup ?
Did I discover the holy grail of easy backups or did I misread what a "symbolic directory junction" is?
I could script up something easy with robocopy, but was just curious of the above would work
I could test this tomorrow, but Tom's forum is omnipresent.
At work we have hundreds of computers that staff use.
Normally we say any data that is important to you, schedules, music, videos of corporate events, ... goes on the H drive which is mapped to that user's name on our 100+ Terabyte Tegile SAN with compression and Deduplication which for all intents and purposes is infinite.
Sometimes staff doesn't place important stuff on the H drive and instead puts it on the C drive which eventually dies.
I say something like;
"YOUR DATA IS GONE! IT'S JUST GONE! GAME OVER!"
And then I remembered something from years ago called Symbolic links.
And so here is the actual question of what i want to do.
mklink /J "C:\Users\awest\Documents" "H:\Documents_Backup"
If I were to type that would it create a copy/backup of everything in Adam West's Documents on the H:\Document_Backup ?
Did I discover the holy grail of easy backups or did I misread what a "symbolic directory junction" is?
I could script up something easy with robocopy, but was just curious of the above would work
I could test this tomorrow, but Tom's forum is omnipresent.