Parsing Shortcuts in Powershell - powershell

Question

I have some code which is trying to make a copy of a directory which contains shortcuts:
# Create a directory to store the files in
mkdir "D:\backup-temp\website.com files\"
# Search for shortcuts so that we can exclude them from the copy
$DirLinks = Get-ChildItem "\\web1\c$\Web Sites\website\" -Recurse | ? { $_.Attributes -like "*ReparsePoint*" } | % { $_.FullName }
# Execute the copy
cp -recurse -Exclude $DirLinks "\\web1\c$\Web Sites\website\*" "D:\backup-temp\website.com files\"
But when I execute the script I get the following error:
Copy-Item : The symbolic link cannot be followed because its type is disabled.
At C:\scripts\backup.ps1:16 char:3
+ cp <<<< -recurse "\\web1\c$\Web Sites\website\*" "D:\backup-temp\website.com files\"
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Copy-Item], IOException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId :
System.IO.IOException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.CopyItemCommand
It seems the script is getting hung up on a symbolic link (I'm assuming the shortcut) that I'm trying to exclude in the fourth line of the script.
How can I tell powershell to ignore/exclude shortcuts?
Thanks,
Brad

Answer 1

If you are on V3 or higher you can eliminate the reparse points like so:
Get-ChildItem "\\web1\c$\Web Sites\website" -Recurse -Attributes !ReparsePoint |
Copy-Item -Dest "D:\backup-temp\website.com files"
On V1/V2 you can do this:
Get-ChildItem "\\web1\c$\Web Sites\website" |
Where {!($_.Attributes -bor [IO.FileAttributes]::ReparsePoint)} |
Copy-Item -Dest "D:\backup-temp\website.com files" -Recurse

Answer 2

So it turns out that the issue I faces is explained in this Microsoft Blog Post:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/junfeng/archive/2012/05/07/the-symbolic-link-cannot-be-followed-because-its-type-is-disabled.aspx
Essentially on the server I am running the powershell script from I needed to run the following command:
fsutil behavior set SymlinkEvaluation R2R:1
This allows Remote to remote symbolic links. Once this is in place the above powershell commands run as expected without errors.