Not Capturing Junction

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tsuwado
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Not Capturing Junction

Post by tsuwado »

Hello,


Pretty sure I missed something in reading but I have a junction point that isn't being captured. My user director is actually a junction, in the case a mount point to a partition. The partition has no other mount point that I know how to access.

Windows 10
NTFS file system (no idea what version)
Winlib 1.14.4

command:
wimlib-imagex.exe capture[appdend] c:\ "e:\dir\data.bck" --solid --solid-compress=recovery:100 --strict-acls --snapshot --image-property Capture-Date=%%date%"

error:
(After noticing this directory was no in the backup, I set the path to directly the user profile)
Error: Exiting with error code 40:
Expected a directory

I see this is similar to post 698, but I'm not sure what to do about it. I'm not controlling the shadow copy manually.

The only think that may work is giving the drive a letter mount point, backing up the data and then removing it. Though I'd like to avoid that.
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