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# Using rdiff-backup under Windows ## 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). You will need the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 redistributables. If these are not installed on your system, *rdiff-backup* will be unable to run and Windows will display a message such as *"The system cannot execute the specified program"*. To install the redistributables for all users, install the package available from Microsoft.com (search for *"visual c 2008 redistributable"*). Alternatively, you can install the redistributable in a "side-by-side" configuration, which does not require administrator privileges. Simply download the DLL package from: [https://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/rdiff-backup/Microsoft.VC90.zip](https://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/rdiff-backup/Microsoft.VC90.zip) and copy the four enclosed files to the same directory as *rdiff-backup.exe*. You will need to follow either method only once. ## 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. Additionally, you may 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. **UPDATE:** With appropriate escaping, it looks like it is possible for this to work. Follow this example: > mkdir c:\foo > cd "c:\Documents and Settings" > rdiff-backup.exe --include c:\\/foo --exclude c:\\/** c:\/ c:\bar The `\\` is necessary in the `--include` and `--exclude` options because those options permit regular-expressions, and `\` is the escape character in regular-expressions, and thus needs to be escaped itself. ## Troubleshooting If you have everything installed properly, and it still doesn't work, see the enclosed manual, FAQ, the web page at [https://rdiff-backup.net](https://rdiff-backup.net), and/or the mailing list. You can subscribe to the mailing list at: [https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users](https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users) You can also try searching the mailing list archives: [https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/](https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/)