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([email protected]) 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 > [email protected]::/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 ? > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
