create symbolic link to a directory excluding certain file types

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Combat squirrel

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As title, I am wanting to create a symbolic link to a directory excluding certain file types in windows 2012 r2.

Reason being is I have 2 cloud accounts, I want one to back up photos and the other to back up video, but the files are all mixed up (hundreds of thousands).

Basically I was wondering if it was possible to create a symbolic link directory(s) that for example one will only show '*.cr2' files and the other '*.mp4, .mov' etc

I would want to end up with 2 'folders' one 'pictures' and other 'video' but they appear as a local directory on C:\ and obviously only end up showing the appropriate file types both reading from a master directory on a network drive.

Thanks all
 
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Ones Amazon Cloud drive & I cannot see how to exclude certain file types in its software.

I do have crashplan but I want to take advantage of Amazons upload speed - crash plan is deathly slow and were talking double figure TB's
 
Yeah as you mentioned chaps I think my only option would be to search pictures only and copy - my only issue is each folder contains photos and video from said event arranged in date/month/year order so just pulling the image files would dump ~1/4-1/2 million image files in one place (not even sure how many, many years of work), of which several thousand will be the same file name (Canon camera names them 0001 to 9999) so iv rolled round that many times, which isnt an issue as they are in sep folders now but large scale copy would run into problems.

I already do have 3 local copies and 1 off site copy and 2 cloud accounts. However the total amount is some 15TB's currently for essential stuff, so my local copies are 2x UnRaid arrays & the final copies are just several 4tb drives with the data directly copied on then stored in a fire proof safe.
 
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