>/BTW, I was playing around with rdiff-backup 1.2.8-6 a couple days ago, />/and while it seemed to work fine when the destination was on a local />/drive, I couldn't figure out how to get it to work when the destination />/is a network share If I specify the destination as />/'//192.168.1.250/finance-backup/finance.rdiff-backup' I get: / >/ Fatal Error: Unable to create directory />//192.168.1.250/finance-backup/finance.rdiff-backup / Note the single leading slash. Most likely, the program performs manual "normalization" of the path, which is not POSIX-compatible. POSIX explicitly declare that double leading slash is a special case, and its behavior is defined by the underlying system. If 2.0 would exhibit the same behavior, it is worth reporting upstream.
Based on my limited testing, 2.0.0-2 works fine with local directories. As far as i can tell it works at least as well as version 1.2.8-6.
2.0.0-2 does exhibit the same behavior for network shares. I discovered, however, that there is a "native" windows version of rdiff-backup (https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/releases/tag/v2.0.0), so I downloaded, installed, tried it. It also exhibits the same behavior for network shares, so the issue is clearly not introduced by the cygwin port.
I created an issue upstream (https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/issues/353).
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