Commit c4c7417f authored by owsla's avatar owsla

Add some more Windows documentation and release 1.2.1


git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup@931 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109
parent fd202543
New in v1.2.1 (????/??/??)
New in v1.2.1 (2008/08/24)
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Produce a new binary for Windows which includes the Python for Windows
Extensions. Thanks to Shohn Trojacek for reporting the problem.
Disable hardlinks by default when backup source or restore destination is
on Windows. (Andrew Ferguson)
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INSTALLATION:
Thank you for trying rdiff-backup on Windows. Native support for the Windows
environment is quite new in rdiff-backup. Please read the manual page, FAQ and
the Wiki thorougly.
To install the provided binary, simply copy rdiff-backup.exe to someplace in
your PATH. Everything is included in the binary (including Python) for local
operation. For remote operation, you will need to install a Windows SSH
program. You will also need to install rdiff-backup on the remote system(s).
ADDITIONAL ISSUES:
Currently, rdiff-backup's --include and --exclude options do not support
Windows paths with \ as the directory separator. Instead, it is necessary to
use / which is the Unix directory separator. However, you will need to run
rdiff-backup from the same directory as the source of your backup, eg:
cd c:\
rdiff-backup.exe --include "c:/My Stuff" --exclude "c:/**" c:/ c:/Backup
will work to backup "c:\My Stuff" to "c:\Backup", but:
cd "c:\My Stuff"
rdiff-backup.exe --include "c:/My Stuff" --exclude "c:/**" c:/ c:/Backup
will not work.
TROUBLESHOOTING:
If you have everything installed properly, and it still doesn't work,
see the enclosed FAQ.html, the web page at http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org,
the Wiki at: http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org, and/or the mailing list. You can
subscribe to the mailing list at:
http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users
Rdiff-backup manual (Unix man page):
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1.html
Recommended Wiki entries:
http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/BackupFromWindowsToLinux
You can also try searching the mailing list archives:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/
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