Re: Backup from different hard drives on Windows

[pbn1k]

Thank you, I may try Cygwin. Perhaps WSL.

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

> 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