[rdiff-backup-users] Re: Windows Vista - infinite recursion problem

[John covici]

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(address@hidden) 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
 > 
 > 
 > 
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