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Windows file junction

I have a backup solution which backs up a single folder of my hard disk. I want to "mount" files from various locations of my hard disk into this directory. At first I tried creating ...
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Copy symbolic links with relative path - Windows 10, NTFS, Robocopy

I am using external hard drive to store all my data that have a lots of symbolic links. The file system is NTFS. Now I would like to copy some (or all) of the information to other drive keeping the ...
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After deleting bunch of symbolic links, folder became inaccessible

I've created multiple symbolic links (pointing to existing files) using mklink command, and then proceeded to delete them (ONLY symbolic links themselves, target files still do exist) using Windows ...
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Should I create a junction and symlink to a directory at the same time?

OS: Windows 10 Home. After reading the difference between a directory junction and a symlink, it is clear, that these two things are different. What is not clear after reading How do I create ...
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Need symbolic link functionality WITHOUT symbolic pathname

Running Windows 10 Pro. I am trying to work around the 260 character MAX_PATH limitation native to the Win32 API. I have created a series of backups, which we'll say are designed to back up "...