Comments on: rdiff-backup on Windows

By: Pipps

Pipps — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:10:47 +0000

Thank you for this excellent guide! It is still helping new Rdiff users today!

I followed all of the commands in the article, and it all installed perfectly for me.

I have just one very simply and probably silly unanswered question:

How do I run Rdiff now?

By: chencho

chencho — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:06:04 +0000

You have a windows version into rdiff-backup home page:

http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/non-gnu/rdiff-backup/

By: Ernie

Ernie — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:04:03 +0000

Looking for Step-by-Step guide for windows install, is there any out there for the beginners?

Thanks,

Newbie!!

By: Luís Miranda

Luís Miranda — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:31:32 +0000

This is now available in the Cygwin installer.

By: Mico

Mico — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:21:58 +0000

I tried to build rdiff-backup under Windows XP using MinGW. Compilation process seemed OK but when I try to use rdiff-backup, for example: python rdiff-backup then appear error message: no module named grp, pwd. I thought because in user_group.py there is a line stating import grp, pwd. I tried rdiff-backup version 1.1.16 (newest).

By: Sriram M

Sriram M — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:15:23 +0000

Thanks Dave. I sucessfully installed the rdiffbackup 1.0.1 from http://solutionsfirst.com.au/~dave/backup/ folder and it works gr8.

However I need a favour. Do you have any installer (for windows) for the version 1.0.5?

Any help is appreciated.

By: Andrew Ferguson

Andrew Ferguson — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:08:44 +0000

This patch is no longer necessary starting with version 1.1.8 of rdiff-backup.

Also, version 1.1.12 incorporates a number of improvements for those running on Cygwin. It now compiles and runs ‘out of the box’.

By: Carl Stephenson

Carl Stephenson — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:49:31 +0000

Thanks for writing this tutorial! I don’t think that I could have gotten rdiff-backup on Windows working without your help!!

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:19:55 +0000

PERFECT! FYI – in version 1.0.5 of rdiff-backup line 1075 of rpath.py has the line which needs to be commented out…

$ diff rpath.py rpath.py.orig
1075c1075
os.fsync(fd)

Thanks for posting this info.

By: chencho

chencho — Thu, 24 May 2007 14:12:30 +0000

Hi all!

I want to update with 1.1.5 rdiff-backup your app, but i have some problems.

I have not idea how to make rdiff-backup “standalone”, without cygwin installation; i made your installation, then setup cygwin and compile rdiff-backup and finally replace all of the files that appers twice in your install and in cygwin. In this way i have a problem with cygwin1.dll :(

Can you show as how to make rdiff-backup standalone without cygwin??

Thanks.