Error messages when performing hard symbolic link (Windows 10)

Question

_{Saturday, October 8, 2016 3:11 PM}

Hi,

The hard drive on my laptop is small and I use a NAS drive to store my data.  I want my data to be backed up my the OneDrive process and the information from the Microsoft onedrive forum 'how to backup a nas to onedrive' tells us that this can be done by created a hard symbolic link (mklink /J) between the OneDrive directory on my c:\ drive and the directory on my NAS drive.

Unfortunately when I do this I get the error:

'Local Volumes are required to complete this operation'

I am running the cmd prompt as administrator and all link types are enabled according to the command: fsutil behaviour query SymlinkEvaluation

Would anyone be able to help?

Thanks

All replies (1)

_{Tuesday, October 11, 2016 7:49 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

Please refer to this link below for some information.

Hard Links and Junctions

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365006%28v=vs.85%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

There is a case also talks about the same error message.

http://superuser.com/questions/537343/symbolic-link-or-junction-to-a-networked-samba-share

Please Note: Since the website is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.

From my survey, the following command is worth trying.

mklink /d \directory\folder location\as deep as you wish to go> \<server\directory\folder name>\as deep as you wish to go>

the first location is where you wish to place the link and the second location is where the data is that you want linked.

Regards

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