[rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup on WinXP, how to set up batch file

[John covici]

Sounds like you didn't download the version of rdiff-backup -- go to
the main site and download the 1.2.5 version which is a .zip file
which contains the .exe file.  No python or other files are necessary.

on Sunday 01/25/2009 Pieter Donche(address@hidden) wrote
 > I want to make rdiff-backups of WinXP directories to a remote FreeBSD
 > system.
 > 
 > I followed the instructions in
 > http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/BackupFromWindowsTo Linux
 > 
 > - downloaded and installed PuTTY 0.60,
 > - downloaded and installed 
 > www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5.4/python-2.5.4.Msi
 > - downloaded win32 binary rdiff-backup.1.1.17-cvs.win32-py2.5.exe from
 >   your http://solutionsfirst.com.au/~dave/backup site
 > - configured SSH with public key authication
 > - verified that passwordless login works with the private key file
 > 
 > But I have problems with the final step: launching rdiff-backup.exe
 > the web page states:
 > rdiff-backup.exe -v5 --no-hard-links --print-statistics --remote-schema 
 > "plink.exe -i privatekey.ppk %s rdiff-backup --server" c:\sourcedirectory 
 > address@hidden::/destinationdirectory
 > 
 > Nowhere on my WinXP system I can find a file rdiff-backup.exe
 > 
 > How must rdiff-backup be called then ??
 > 
 > What should be the contents of a batch-file (to be executed at startup
 > of the WinXP system) doing the above ?
 > 
 > 
 > 
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