Hello Stephen,
I am trying to use rdiff-backup to backup my Windows Vista machine, however, I keep getting stuck with Vista's infinitely recursed directories.. rdiff-backup keeps digging down levels and it could be left forever and never get anywhere. For example, I am getting stuck within: C:\Users\All Users\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\........
this is strange, on my Windows boxes I do not have this link to itself, can you simply delete it, so no other actions are required?
It is worth nothing that the 'All Users' directory is not accessible via normal methods. The command I am using to run rdiff is: C:\rdiff-backup>rdiff-backup.exe --exclude-symbolic-links --exclude-special-files \ -v5 --no-hard-links C:/Users/ ./zoot Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated :)
If you cannot delete the link, you could use '--exclude' or '--exclude-filelist[-stdin]' to stop this infinite recursion.
Essentially I am after a simple way to do incremental backups of my Vista box, and rdiff works great for my linux machines... if there is a better solution for Vista, I would love to hear about it :)
There is none ;-) (with the capabilities of storing an arbitrary number of previous versions in a space-efficient manner) AFAICT. You could use Cygwin to run it via cron/anacron to automate this further and to closely emulate Linux behaviour, including using shell-scripts, all common Unix-commands,... HTH Cheers, Oliver _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
