Re: Backup from different hard drives on Windows

Thank you, I may try Cygwin. Perhaps WSL.

On Tuesday, August 13th, 2024 at 11:17 PM, EricZolf <ewl+rdiffbackup@lavar.=
de> wrote:

> Hi,
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> there is no real solution, you backup each drive to a different repositor=
y.
> You could also try to use cygwin, which knows the concept of a root for W=
indows, but I've never tried if rdiff-backup actually works correctly with =
it.
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> KR. Eric
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> On August 13, 2024 2:41:16 AM UTC, pbn1k via Any discussion of rdiff-back=
up [email protected] wrote:
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> > First, I=E2=80=99d like to thank the developers for their hard work.
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> > I need to backup two folders located on different hard drives. My file =
list:
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> > C:/directory1
> > D:/directory2
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> > I use the following command:
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> > rdiff-backup.exe backup --include-globbing-filelist C:/path/to/filelist=
 --exclude '**' C:/ E:/
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> > Unsurprisingly, this command fails because the list contains a director=
y on drive D. I can only choose one drive as source (in this case C) becaus=
e there=E2=80=99s no equivalent of a Linux root directory in Windows (=
=E2=80=9C/=E2=80=9D).
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> > How do I solve this?
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> > Thanks in advance,Johan