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I am working on backing up a number of local and non-local files to my Windows machine. I am familiar with rdiff-backup from other Linux boxes that I use. I have installed rdiff-backup using instructions etc from here, http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/index.html

I have rdiff-backup installed and it appears to be working "almost" fine. The problem is that I have a directory that I want to exclude. On a linux OS I could just do, 

rdiff-backup --exclude C:/target/stuff C:/ D:/backup

However this does not work on a WindowsOS machine. Using the suggested formatting posted here:

http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/Windows-README.txt

I have tried the following,

rdiff-backup --exclude "C:/target/stuff" C:/ D:/backup

also with escape characters...

rdiff-backup --exclude C:\\/target\\/stuff C:/ D:/backup

as well as doing this from the "C:/" directory,

with no luck at all.

portsample
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  • If it is a cygwin program, may be you need `rdiff-backup --exclude /cygdrive/c/target/stuff /cygdrive/c cygdrive/d/backup ` – matzeri Apr 14 '17 at 19:40
  • Good suggestion. After a significant amount of "bit monkeying" around, I've gotten the following to work, rdiff-backup --exclude O:/DCRC/BOLTS/SHELF_SURVEY_BOLTS_GIS O:/DCRC/BOLTS D:/SharedDrive_backup/BOLTS According to documentation for running rdiff-backup on WinOS, this should not work but it does. I suspect the problem when I first tried this was a wrong ASCI character. – portsample Apr 17 '17 at 17:23

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