Hi,
removing dash prefix and adding ignorecase helped to solve my problem. Just
for anyone who might have this problem, this is what the entry in exclude
filelist looks like now:
ignorecase:S:/Temp/doc/test
Thanks a lot!
GroundZero
2011/1/18 Dominic Raferd <domi...@timedicer.co.uk>
> I think for exclude-globbing-filelist you don't need that dash prefix. Here
> is an extract from mine, which works under Windows:
>
> ignorecase:**/printhood/**
> ignorecase:**settings/temp**
> ignorecase:**NTUser.dat**
> ignorecase:**Deleted Items.dbx**
> ignorecase:**Old.dbx**
> ignorecase:**/Kiesoft/**
> ignorecase:**.ldb**
> ignorecase:**Tecom Bluetooth Dongle Application setup guide.pdf**
> ignorecase:**/Temp/**
> ignorecase:**/Temporary Internet Files/**
> ignorecase:**{CE77444D-FC14-4BDA-991A-BDE3A17E85D1}**
> ignorecase:**Trash**
>
> So:
> - remove the prefixed dash
> - you are right to use unescaped forward slashes
> - try using ignorecase: as a prefix and see if this helps
> - no problem to exclude files or folders with spaces in the names
>
> Dominic
> http://www.timedicer.co.uk
> [With TimeDicer you provide an excludelist in Windows format and it
> *nixifies it 'under the hood' to work with rdiff-backup.]
>
>
>
> On 18/01/2011 13:38, ABC DEF wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've been trying to make a backup with rdiff-backup from Windows Vista to
>> a remote Linux box via ssh.
>> I'm trying to achieve something like this:
>>
>> "S:\Program Files\rdiff-backup\rdiff-backup.exe"
>> --exclude-globbing-filelist "S:\Program Files\rdiff-backup\my_exclude.txt"
>> --remote-schema "s:\Program Files\putty2\plink.exe -i privatekey.ppk %%s
>> rdiff-backup --server" s:\Temp\doc u...@example.com:
>> :/home/user/.rdiff-backup
>>
>> File my_exclude.txt looks like this:
>> - s:/Temp/doc/test
>>
>> I've tried other variations, like S:\\/Temp\\/doc\\/testor
>> S:\Temp\docwhich was suggested in Windows howto, but nothing works and it
>> throws this:
>>
>>
>> Fatal Error: Fatal Error: The file specification
>> 's:/Temp/doc/test'
>> cannot match any files in the base directory
>> 's:\Temp\doc'
>>
>> So my goal is to exclude "test" directory from S:\Temp\doc. I am planning
>> on backuping my Documents after I success with this, so I would also like to
>> exclude some directories with spaces in their name (like "My Games").
>>
>> Is it possible to do this with rdiff-backup on Windows?
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>> GroundZero
>>
>>
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