Output of restic version

restic 0.12.1 compiled with go1.16.6 on windows/amd64

How did you run restic exactly?

restic backup --use-fs-snapshot -r b2:my-repo --files-from="include.txt" --iexclude-file="exclude.txt"

where include.txt contains:

c:/test

and exclude.txt is empty, and c:\test contains windows junctions created using mklink /d source target.

What backend/server/service did you use to store the repository?

b2

Expected behavior

restic should back up all directories recursively

Actual behavior

restic backs up all normal sub-directories and silently skips over any windows junctions.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Back up any directory containing windows junctions created using mklink /d source target.

Do you have any idea what may have caused this?

No

Do you have an idea how to solve the issue?

No

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