Re: cross-platform backup tool Help in setting up backup

[Patrik Dufresne]

Hi Emanuele,

On windows you will need to escape the "\" either by using "/" separator or
using "\\".


On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 10:41 AM Emanuele Giusti via Any discussion of
rdiff-backup <rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org> wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> I am trying to set up the backup with rdiff-backup, but without success.
> I'm on Windows 10 and I use PowerShell 7.
>
> I want to backup the folder "C:\Users\Emanuele Giusti" to the folder
> "D:\rdiff-backup_Alexia\Emanuele Giusti", but I want to exclude the
> folders
>
> "C:\Users\Emanuele Giusti\AppData" (this is an hidden folder)
> "C:\Users\Emanuele Giusti\Collegamenti"
> "C:\Users\Emanuele Giusti\Contatti"
> "C:\Users\Emanuele Giusti\Intel"
> "C:\Users\Emanuele Giusti\Oggetti 3D"
> "C:\Users\Emanuele Giusti\Partite salvate"
> "C:\Users\Emanuele Giusti\Preferiti"
> "C:\Users\Emanuele Giusti\Ricerche"
>
> I have consulted the online manual of rdiff-backup several times, but I
> was not able to solve the problem. In fact, rdiff-backup keeps backing
> up even the folders I want to exclude.
> I created a file called list.txt containing the list of folders I want
> to exclude and used the command
>
> rdiff-backup -v 5 --print-statistics --exclude-filelist
> "C:\Users\Emanuele Giusti\Desktop\list.txt" "C:\Users\Emanuele Giusti"
> "D:\rdiff-backup_Alexia\Emanuele Giusti"
>
> but rdiff-backup continues to back up the folders I want to exclude.
>
> Can you help me please?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Emanuele Giusti
>


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