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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/