[BackupPC-users] Windows 7 2009 Junction Point Infinite Loop

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For years I have been backing up a Windows 7 (2007) system, using smb, with nothing more than $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} =  '////Users'; in the client pc config file. This still works just fine. I set up another Windows 7 client (2009), and when I used the same $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} =  '////Users'; under smb, the server got caught in the first junction point and descended into an infinite loop, or  black hole.

I decided that I didn't have the knowledge to figure out this problem, so I decided to avoid all junctions by using the long list of excludes that are listed at University of Maryland web site http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/projs/backuppc_guide.html. The only change I made was to prepend all specified junctions with '////' in lieu of just one '/'.  I made that change when there was no improvement in avoiding junctions under smb. The U of M site applied to rsync backups only. Unfortunately, adding the slashes changed nothing.

This is a chunk of my Xferlog as it finally hits the first junction, Application Data, under  Default folder. The U of M exclusions for "Application Data" appear to provide full coverage for excluding that junction. If no one in this group has had success in smb back up of Windows 7 (2009) using junction exclusions, I'll have to consider backuppc over smb defunct for my Windows clients going forward. 

Running: /usr/bin/smbclient \\\\andromeda\\Users -U stan -E -d 1 -c tarmode\ full -TcrX - ////All\ Users ////\*/Application\ Data ////\*/Co
okies ////\*/Local\ Settings ////\*/My\ Documents ////\*/NetHood ////\*/PrintHood ////\*/Recent ////\*/SendTo ////\*/Start\ Menu ////\*/Tem
plates ////\*/AppData/Local/Application\ Data ////\*/AppData/Local/History ////\*/AppData/Local/Temporary\ Internet\ Files ////\*/Documents
/My\ Music ////\*/Documents/My\ Pictures ////\*/Documents/My\ Videos ////\*/Application\ Data ////\*/Cookies ////\*/Local\ Settings ////\*/
My\ Documents ////\*/NetHood ////\*/PrintHood ////\*/Recent ////\*/SendTo ////\*/Start\ Menu ////\*/Templates ////\*/AppData/Local/Applicat
ion\ Data ////\*/AppData/Local/History ////\*/AppData/Local/Temporary\ Internet\ Files ////\*/Documents/My\ Music ////\*/Documents/My\ Pict
ures ////\*/Documents/My\ Videos ////\*/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary\ Internet\ Files ////\*/AppData/Local/Temp ////\*/NTUSER.
DAT\* ////\*/ntuser.dat\* ////\*/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/UsrClass.dat\* ////\*/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows\ Defender/FileTracke
r ////\*/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Explorer/thumbcache_\*.db ////\*/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/WER ////\*/AppData/Local/Mozilla/
Firefox/Profiles/\*/Cache ////\*/AppData/Local/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/\*/OfflineCache ////\*/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/Cookies //
//\*/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/Recent ////\*/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary\ Internet\ Files ////\*/AppData/Local/Temp /
///\*/NTUSER.DAT\* ////\*/ntuser.dat\* ////\*/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/UsrClass.dat\* ////\*/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows\ Defend
er/FileTracker ////\*/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Explorer/thumbcache_\*.db ////\*/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/WER ////\*/AppData/L
ocal/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/\*/Cache ////\*/AppData/Local/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/\*/OfflineCache ////\*/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windo
ws/Cookies ////\*/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/Recent
full backup started for share Users
Xfer PIDs are now 11698,11697
tar_re_search set
Domain=[ANDROMEDA] OS=[Windows 7 Professional 7601 Service Pack 1] Server=[Windows 7 Professional 6.1]
tarmode is now full, system, hidden, noreset, verbose
NT_STATUS_INVALID_NETWORK_RESPONSE listing \All Users\*
This backup will fail because: NT_STATUS_INSUFF_SERVER_RESOURCES listing \Default\AppData\Local\Application Data\Application Data\Applicati
on Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application 
Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Dat
a\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\A
pplication Data\*
NT_STATUS_INSUFF_SERVER_RESOURCES listing \Default\AppData\Local\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Applic
ation Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Applicati
on Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application 
Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\*
NT_STATUS_INSUFF_SERVER_RESOURCES listing \Default\AppData\Local\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Applic
ation Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Applicati
on Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application 
Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\*
  create d 755       0/0           0 All Users
  create d 755       0/0           0 Default
  create d 755       0/0           0 Default/AppData
  create d 755       0/0           0 Default/AppData/Local
  create d 755       0/0           0 Default/AppData/Local/Application Data
  create d 755       0/0           0 Default/AppData/Local/Application Data/Application Data
  create d 755       0/0           0 Default/AppData/Local/Application Data/Application Data/Application Data
  create d 755       0/0           0 Default/AppData/Local/Application Data/Application Data/Application Data/Application Data
  create d 755       0/0           0 Default/AppData/Local/Application Data/Application Data/Application Data/Application Data/Application 

There's about 4MB in the Xfer log with this stuff.

Stanundefined

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