Problems with weird folders been linked together

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Hello,

We have a drive C: on one of our 2000 servers. It's split in 2 C and H. Now
we have a folder for the Arcserve backup database on the C drive and the
exact same one on the H drive.

The catch is if you drop something on the C drive folder it appears
automatically on the H drive folder (Same thing backwards). Can't be mirrored
it's on the same drive. No offline setup activated either, so what the heck
is it?

Our sys admin got let go and we have to figure all this stuff out. But this
is a bit to deep for me...Thoughs people?

Thank you
Gabriel
 
Could one of the the folders be a junction point referring to the other?
That would produce the effect you describe. The output of a DIR command
issued against the parent folder will identify junction points with
<JUNCTION>.


Falcon1 said:
Hello,
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We have a drive C: on one of our 2000 servers. It's split in 2 C and H. Now
we have a folder for the Arcserve backup database on the C drive and the
exact same one on the H drive.
Click to expand...
The catch is if you drop something on the C drive folder it appears
automatically on the H drive folder (Same thing backwards). Can't be mirrored
it's on the same drive. No offline setup activated either, so what the heck
is it?
Click to expand...
 
uuuh you lost me completely, what's a junction point and how do you set ip up
or should I say how do I find out if it s that?
 
Junction points can be created by various programs, including linkd fro
the resource Kit. Creating a junction point effectively establishes a
folder as an alias for another folder or drive. Since they're two names
for the name object, whatever happens to one happens simultaneously to the
other.

As I said in my previous reply, you can identify junction points by using
the DIR command on the parent folder. For example, on my system typing
"dir \Data" at the command prompt produces in part

Directory of D:\data

11/22/2005 21:28 <DIR> .
11/22/2005 21:28 <DIR> ..
08/18/2005 21:40 <DIR> Config
06/22/2004 01:05 <DIR> Fax
10/30/2005 15:00 <DIR> Graphics
03/30/2003 23:04 <DIR> Home
11/19/2005 17:56 <DIR> Logs
10/22/2005 15:30 <DIR> Misc
11/22/2003 00:45 <JUNCTION> My Pictures
11/12/2005 23:22 <DIR> Notes
01/30/2004 21:27 <JUNCTION> Accounting Data
03/20/2005 22:13 <DIR> Security

The entries labeled <JUNCTION> are junction points -- aliases for folders
elsewhere in the directory structure.
 
That's it your right it's a junction point! Wow thank you very much I had
never heard of this prior you mentionning it.

Have a great day Gary!
Gabriel
 
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