Skipped Reparse Point Folder

[Jude law]

Good morning.

I 'm trying to save a copy of my hard disk on cd. This hard disk contains the "my documents" "my pictures" etc directories (I'm using windows7).

When I calculate the size in imgburn, I get about a hundred modified file and folder names in the log. I don't like it very much, but what can I do ?

But one thing I don't understand is that I also have "Skipped Reparse Point Folder" entries. I don't understand what these mean.

 

 

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Post the log please so we can see what we’re dealing with.

[Jude law]

I 05:44:25 ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 started!
I 05:44:25 Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Edition (6.1, Build 7600)
I 05:44:25 Total Physical Memory: 16 757 968 KiB  -  Available: 12 459 004 KiB
I 05:44:25 Initialising SPTI...
I 05:44:25 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...
I 05:44:26 -> Drive 1 - Info: PIONEER BD-RW   BDR-S09 1.34-ID43 (E:) (SATA)
I 05:44:26 Found 1 BD-RE XL!
I 05:45:16 Operation Started!
I 05:45:16 Building Image Tree...
W 05:45:16 Skipped Reparse Point Folder: D:\Users\1\Documents\My Music\ (0xA0000003 - MP)
W 05:45:16 Skipped Reparse Point Folder: D:\Users\1\Documents\My Pictures\ (0xA0000003 - MP)
W 05:45:16 Skipped Reparse Point Folder: D:\Users\1\Documents\My Videos\ (0xA0000003 - MP)
I 05:45:43 Calculating Totals...
I 05:45:43 Preparing Image...

Here I removed the hundred lines about modified folder / file names, there were two kinds of entries :

For files :

W 05:45:48 UDF File: '\Users\1\Documents\ ********** -> *********** (OS Path: D:\Users\1\Documents\ ************

And for folders :

W 05:45:46 UDF Directory: '\Users\1\Documents\  ********* -> ********** (OS Path: D:\Users\1\Documents\ ************

Then it goes on :

 

W 05:46:51 UDF File System: 100 folder/file names have been modified due to your current settings.
I 05:46:57 Contents: 70 012 Files, 4 198 Folders
I 05:46:57 Content Type: Data
I 05:46:57 Data Type: MODE1/2048
I 05:46:57 File System(s): UDF (2.50)
I 05:46:57 Volume Label: [Not Configured]
I 05:46:57 Size: 79 855 445 317 bytes
I 05:46:57 Sectors: 39 031 359
I 05:46:57 Image Size: 80 268 951 552 bytes
I 05:46:57 Image Sectors: 39 193 824
I 05:46:57 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:01:41

[Jude law]

My OS isn't on the same disk as the my documents folder.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Ok so you’ve got 80gb of stuff there.... I guess you didn’t actually mean cd when you said it because it’ll never fit!

A reparse point is a virtual link to somewhere else - as in, not a real folder. They’re possibly linked to another folder that’s already being included and you don’t want the data duplicated or the image will get even bigger.

Might you not be better off using a real hdd backup tool like Acronis True Image or similar?

[Jude law]

Oh god, sorry I've must have been asleep, yes it's a 100GB blu-ray of course, not a cd.

[Jude law]

Maybe, I would have to find out how these backup tools work. I'm not sure their developers answer every question on a dedicated forum though

[Jude law]

I just want to make sure I save everything that is currently located on that hard disk.

I am a bit afraid about images. What if they end up corrupted ? Wouldn't the whole image be corrupted like a .rar file would ?

[LIGHTNING UK!]

You could always create a set of par2 recovery files for the image - so you can recover it if that should happen.