Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Cygwin/Windows

[Andrew K. Bressen]

Ben Escoto <address@hidden> writes:
>> To recap, if you're passing arguments to rdiff-backup via a windows
>> command line:
>> 
>> - All slashes after the first should be forward slashes.
>> - It's not case-sensitive before the first forward slash, and is
>> case-sensitive afterwards.
>> 
>> So if you're referring to, for example, C:\DFS\Root
>> 
>> - C:\DFS/Root is correct
>> - c:\dfs/Root is correct
>> - C:\DFS\Root is not correct
>> - c:\dfs/root is not correct


I think there is another way.
On the cygwin boxes I've played with, 
there is an all-forward-slash way to refer to paths
from within the cygwin environment.

/cygdrive/c/  is the c drive, 
/cygdrive/d/  the d drive, and so on. 

/cygdrive and the drive letter are lower case,
and being unixy, I'm pretty sure everything is case sensitive, 
so for example I exclude 

  /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Grace Hopper/Local Settings/Temporary 
Internet Files

from backups to avoid backing up internet explorer cache files, and 

  /cygdrive/c/PAGEFILE.SYS

to avoid backing up the windows paging file. 

This notation works at the very least for arguments to rsync from
within a bash script on windows 2k and xp machines using current cygwin
and the bash and rsync it supplies on an ntfs filesystem.