Re: Backup from different hard drives on Windows

[EricZolf]

Hi,

there is no real solution, you backup each drive to a different repository.
You could also try to use cygwin, which knows the concept of a root for 
Windows, but I've never tried if rdiff-backup actually works correctly with it.

KR. Eric

On August 13, 2024 2:41:16 AM UTC, pbn1k via Any discussion of rdiff-backup 
<rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org> wrote:
>First, I’d like to thank the developers for their hard work.
>
>I need to backup two folders located on different hard drives. My file list:
>
>C:/directory1
>D:/directory2
>
>I use the following command:
>
>rdiff-backup.exe backup --include-globbing-filelist C:/path/to/filelist 
>--exclude '**' C:/ E:/
>
>Unsurprisingly, this command fails because the list contains a directory on 
>drive D. I can only choose one drive as source (in this case C) because 
>there’s no equivalent of a Linux root directory in Windows (“/”).
>
>How do I solve this?
>
>Thanks in advance,Johan