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mwb1100:
SyncBackPro and SyncBackSE 25% off through Monday, Nov 26: https://www.2brightsparks.com/store/cybermonday/

    I've used SyncBackPro for a long time and like it a lot, but I think other backup utilities might be easier to use (and less flexible maybe).


A couple of things I don't use so can't comment on their value:

    SpyShelter Firewall or Premium 35% off with code BF18 until Nov 27: https://www.spyshelter.com/

    Cloudberry Backup for Desktop 50% off until Nov 28:

        - CloudBerry Backup Desktop Edition BM (Windows?)
        - CloudBerry Backup for Mac
        - CloudBerry Backup for Linux

4wd:
Ledger Nano S hardware crypto wallet is 50% off, (matte black only), with free shipping.

Black Friday / Cyber Monday 2018

Jibz:
XYplorer - 50% off lifetime license, live for another 20 hours or so

Jibz:
Arq Backup - 50% off, live

ital2:
mwb1100,

Could you confirm that SyncBack Pro (since you use it) does mandatorily follow folder symlinks even in its current version, or better even, tell that by option, it does NOT follow them, which for sync and backup purposes, would be the wished-for behavior.

Unfortunately, this functionality seems to be absent though, and from my knowledge (and my experience with it), Syncovery (which is not on offer but obviously worth its full price) is the only such (2-digits-priced) tool which offers both: NOT following file symlinks AND NOT following folder symlinks, i.e. treating both as-is.

(This "manual" page is brand-new: https://help.2brightsparks.com/support/solutions/articles/43000335955-junction-points-reparse-points , and from there, they link to this: https://www.2brightsparks.com/resources/articles/ntfs-hard-links-junctions-and-symbolic-links.html which is just dated "copyright 2018", so I suppose this is current valid info there, and then it just treats file symlinks as-is, while at the end of the day, that's even more important for folder symlinks. See this discussion, but which is from 2015, so I'm asking for confirmation: https://www.2brightsparks.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=11927 )

Frankly speaking, I advise against any synch tool which does not do it the way you'll need it, so for the time being, and up to better information (updates), no discount justifies buying a tool not being able to do it.

Junctions are NO replacement for relative folder symlinks; (especially folder) symlinks make NTFS three-dimensional. (I have hundreds of relative file and folder symlinks (and big hdd's, but there are ways to combine lesser ones into virtual, bigger drives).)

And yes, you can do it with a (home-grown) script (robocopy doesn't do it either EDIT: clarification: it CANNOT do it, as wished for, either, i.e. it just has a switch for "don't follow file symlinks", but not the respective switch for folder symlinks: just like I fear the BrightSparks product works), but then, why buy any synch tool to begin with? (You run your script or Syncovery as admin, in order to get the UAC dialog just once, up-front.)

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