I know what the problem is, I have had it myself. You have a junction to itself. There is a program which is free which can manipulate the junction so you can delete it. A junction is the ntfs name for a linkand is not well documented. Go to http://technet.microsoftcom/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.asp for further details.
on Tuesday 12/09/2008 Oliver Mulatz([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > 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 [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users > Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
