Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Has anyone managed to run rdiff-backup on windows?

[dave kempe]

If you look in the setup.exe version I make that work with a batch file.
You might want to install that to get some hints.

dave

Karjala wrote:
> Thanks, the installation was very smooth.
> 
> Now, how would you automate the process of backing up?
> 
> On UNIX I used cron for this.
> 
> On Windows I'm thinking about using Scheduled Tasks (that's in
> Accessories->System Tools). Is that what you use too?
> 
> If so, which DOS command do you run to execute rdiff-backup?
> 
> If not so, how do you schedule rdiff-backup?
> 
> Thanks,
> - Karjala
> 
> 
> Ryan Tate wrote:
>> Karjala, just wanted to make sure you have seen this page:
>>
>> http://katastrophos.net/andre/blog/?p=19
>>
>> And installed via Cygwin's Setup.exe the dependencies (for both rsync
>> and rdiff-backup):
>>
>> Devel/
>>   autoconf
>>   automake
>>   binutils
>>   gcc
>>   make
>>   patchutils
>> Interpreters/
>>   python
>> Web/
>>   wget
>>
>> I just got rdiff-backup running under cygwin a few days ago. I used
>> the specific version of librsync listed on that web page,
>> http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/librsync/librsync-0.9.7.tar.gz
>>
> 
> 
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