Re: Copying NTFS Hard Links and Junctions to and from CD/DVD
From: Kevin Myers (KevinMyers_at_austin.rr.com)
Date: 02/25/04
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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:39:37 -0600
Hi Joe,
Thanks for your suggestion. Yes, after posting my original message in this
thread yesterday, I did using backup/restore as one possible work-around.
However, the disadvantage to that approach is that the files can't be used
directly from the CD or DVD, and they would have to be restored from the
backup to hard disk prior to use. While not necessarily an absolute killer,
that is a *very* significant problem. Let me explain why...
The directory structure in question which includes hard links and junctions
that we would like to copy to CD is a structure that we use when building
and gathering supporting data for complex projects that we propose. This
structure makes it easy to navigate between documents that are related to
different business objects that are addressed and used as supporting
evidence for our proposals. It allows one to easily navigate between
documents for business objects that are related to each other in multiple
ways, e.g. geographical, organizational, transactional, or through
regulatory ties.
Once we have finished gathering and preparing all of the necessary documents
and data for our proposals (these are *far* from simple Word documents and
the like), we need to provide all of our data to our prospective clients for
their own review and in-house evaluation on their machines. We would like
to deliver the data on CD or DVD for this purpose. From several
standpoints, it is very undesirable to need to copy (or even worse
*restore*) our data onto the customer's machine:
1. It could result in confidentiality breaches if the data gets left on the
customer's machine beyond their evaluation period, and someone else comes
along and finds the data on their machine.
2. The customer might not have enough free space readily available to
restore our rather large directory structures and files to their hard
drives, or enough patience to wait for the restore to complete.
3. The customer may be very unfamiliar and uncomfortable with using the
restore process.
All in all, it would just plain be a whole lot better if the customer could
directly access our data on the CD or DVD itself, rather than being forced
to copy it to their hard drives. So, we need the ability to create the
identical file structure and behavior on the CD or DVD that we have on our
own NTFS formatted hard drives, specifically including the hard links and
junctions. That way, our clients will be able to navigate and search the
data just like we do, with no need to copy our data onto their machines.
Make sense?
s/KAM
"Joe Griffin [MSFT]" <joegr@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7zQygdy%23DHA.2584@cpmsftngxa10.phx.gbl...
> Hello Kevin,
>
> Have you considered backup the files up using NTBackup to a file on the
hard drive and then burning the backup to the CD or DVD drive?
>
> Joe Griffin [MS]
> Windows 2000 Server Setup Team
>
> --
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