Windows 1803, 7z 18.05
Trying to archive and compress a folder structure with multiple NTFS junctions referencing parts of the said structure (i.e. no "outside" links) - any possibility to compress the structure without 7zip resolving the junctions, resulting in duplicates?
Preserving the junctions would be neat, archiving the junctions as empty folders would also be acceptable - but archive size has absolute priority.
Choosing tar
or wim
as format has options about NTFS symlinks, but doesn't seem to involve compression (only store
is presented as compression level) - I'd have to compress afterwards, which seems an unnecessary intermediate step.
I could delete the junctions before archiving, but I'd rather not to, if possible.
7z.exe
command-line interface has the options:-snh : store hard links as links
and-snl : store symbolic links as links
, but I can't see any options for these in the GUI version, either in Options or in the archive creation dialogue. – AFH Oct 26 '18 at 14:46wim
andtar
formats only – kamikatze13 Oct 26 '18 at 14:53