Hi Emanuele, On windows you will need to escape the "\" either by using "/" separator or using "\\".
On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 10:41 AM Emanuele Giusti via Any discussion of rdiff-backup <[email protected]> wrote: > Good morning, > > I am trying to set up the backup with rdiff-backup, but without success. > I'm on Windows 10 and I use PowerShell 7. > > I want to backup the folder "C:\Users\Emanuele Giusti" to the folder > "D:\rdiff-backup_Alexia\Emanuele Giusti", but I want to exclude the > folders > > "C:\Users\Emanuele Giusti\AppData" (this is an hidden folder) > "C:\Users\Emanuele Giusti\Collegamenti" > "C:\Users\Emanuele Giusti\Contatti" > "C:\Users\Emanuele Giusti\Intel" > "C:\Users\Emanuele Giusti\Oggetti 3D" > "C:\Users\Emanuele Giusti\Partite salvate" > "C:\Users\Emanuele Giusti\Preferiti" > "C:\Users\Emanuele Giusti\Ricerche" > > I have consulted the online manual of rdiff-backup several times, but I > was not able to solve the problem. In fact, rdiff-backup keeps backing > up even the folders I want to exclude. > I created a file called list.txt containing the list of folders I want > to exclude and used the command > > rdiff-backup -v 5 --print-statistics --exclude-filelist > "C:\Users\Emanuele Giusti\Desktop\list.txt" "C:\Users\Emanuele Giusti" > "D:\rdiff-backup_Alexia\Emanuele Giusti" > > but rdiff-backup continues to back up the folders I want to exclude. > > Can you help me please? > > Best regards, > > Emanuele Giusti > -- *ATTENTION: En vacance du 5 mai au 16 mai 2022 | **In vacation from May 5 to May 16, 2022* IKUS Software inc. https://www.ikus-soft.com/ 514-971-6442 130 rue Doris St-Colomban, QC J5K 1T9
