Heh sorry, symbolic links are mostly unknown to the Windows world.
Basically it's a directory that points to another directory.
So say the files you want to back up are on your NAS at \\nas\volume\documents.
On your computer you have a directory mapped so you can just go to T:\documents to get your documents, but the backup programs don't like it.
What the symbolic link does is give you a local directory linked to a remote one. So if you created a symbolic link from C:\BackupSource to \\nas\volume then you would tell your backup program to backup C:\BackupSource\documents... if you used Windows Explorer C:\BackupSource is a directory and inside you will see the documents folder (and all the other folders on your NAS), and the path in the title bar will be C:\BackupSource\documents even though it's getting the files from the NAS.
It's just creating another way to get to a specific location.
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