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My windows install on my dual boot has been corrupted… I need to backup certain files. I am currently trying with Nautilus and Dolphin to make a backup of “My Documents” and a few other folders. My documents is a “link” and when I copy it in ubuntu I merely get a link pointing to the other partition. How can I copy the actual contents of a linked folder, as well as the contents of any linked folders contained within? (recursive linked directories)
This might be severe overkill, but sometimes I go for a shotgun approach I know works.
Use two instances of tar — one to create an archive and the second to restore it.