Restored Files Created as SIS Links

[Guest Will]

This is a new one for me: on a Windows 2003 server, some files are being

restored / migrated from another server. The files are being created by

Windows Backup (in restore mode) as "SIS Links". There is some hidden

folder in the root that apparently contains the actual files, and I guess

the files on the NTFS file system are simply hard links to those files?

 

What the heck is this SIS feature? I'm never experienced such a thing in

using hundreds of W2K and W2K3 systems, doing many thousands of backups and

restores. Is this a side effect of some option on the restore?

 

In Windows itself, is there some registry option, or UI, that controls

whether this SIS feature is turned on or off?

 

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Will