How to do "diff" with local files on Windows

[AxelPetermann]

None of the following commands worked:

rustic.exe --repository %repo_rustic% --password-file %pwdfile% diff --only-identical 5f1d4829 "D:\test"
rustic.exe --repository %repo_rustic% --password-file %pwdfile% diff --only-identical 5f1d4829 "D/test"
rustic.exe --repository %repo_rustic% --password-file %pwdfile% diff --only-identical 5f1d4829 "D\test"
rustic.exe --repository %repo_rustic% --password-file %pwdfile% diff --only-identical 5f1d4829 "/D/test"

Could someone help me please

[AxelPetermann]

No one who could help here?

[aawsome]

Can you please provide the output of those commands? "Doesn't work" is unfortunately not helpful to find out reasons why it isn't working...

[AxelPetermann]

Thanks for coming back on this.

I run the following four commands (on Windows 11 using rustic v0.9.4) and get the following outputs:

rustic.exe --repository %repo_rustic% --password-file %pwdfile% diff 5f1d4829 "D:\test"

[INFO] using no config file, none of these exist: C:\Users\AxelPetermann\AppData\Roaming\rustic\config\rustic.toml, C:\ProgramData\rustic\config\rustic.toml, .\rustic.toml
[INFO] repository local:D:\z_tmp\rustic TEST\repo: password is correct.
[INFO] using cache at C:\Users\AxelPetermann\AppData\Local\rustic\49d8c1cc719253d096846088378d230b908a24c7304e61e7456e443c66fe03f8
[00:00:00] reading index...               ████████████████████████████████████████          3/3
[00:00:00] getting snapshots...           ████████████████████████████████████████          0
error: no suitable id found for `D`

rustic.exe --repository %repo_rustic% --password-file %pwdfile% diff 5f1d4829 "D/test"

[INFO] using no config file, none of these exist: C:\Users\AxelPetermann\AppData\Roaming\rustic\config\rustic.toml, C:\ProgramData\rustic\config\rustic.toml, .\rustic.toml
[INFO] repository local:D:\z_tmp\rustic TEST\repo: password is correct.
[INFO] using cache at C:\Users\AxelPetermann\AppData\Local\rustic\49d8c1cc719253d096846088378d230b908a24c7304e61e7456e443c66fe03f8
[00:00:00] reading index...               ████████████████████████████████████████          3/3
[00:00:00] getting snapshot...            ████████████████████████████████████████          0
[INFO] getting snapshot...
[00:00:00] getting snapshot...            ████████████████████████████████████████          0
error: Error accessing "D/test"

rustic.exe --repository %repo_rustic% --password-file %pwdfile% diff 5f1d4829 "D\test"

[INFO] using no config file, none of these exist: C:\Users\AxelPetermann\AppData\Roaming\rustic\config\rustic.toml, C:\ProgramData\rustic\config\rustic.toml, .\rustic.toml
[INFO] repository local:D:\z_tmp\rustic TEST\repo: password is correct.
[INFO] using cache at C:\Users\AxelPetermann\AppData\Local\rustic\49d8c1cc719253d096846088378d230b908a24c7304e61e7456e443c66fe03f8
[00:00:00] reading index...               ████████████████████████████████████████          3/3
[00:00:00] getting snapshots...           ████████████████████████████████████████          0
error: no suitable id found for `D\test`

rustic.exe --repository %repo_rustic% --password-file %pwdfile% diff 5f1d4829 "/D/test"

[INFO] using no config file, none of these exist: C:\Users\AxelPetermann\AppData\Roaming\rustic\config\rustic.toml, C:\ProgramData\rustic\config\rustic.toml, .\rustic.toml
[INFO] repository local:D:\z_tmp\rustic TEST\repo: password is correct.
[INFO] using cache at C:\Users\AxelPetermann\AppData\Local\rustic\49d8c1cc719253d096846088378d230b908a24c7304e61e7456e443c66fe03f8
[00:00:00] reading index...               ████████████████████████████████████████          3/3
[00:00:00] getting snapshot...            ████████████████████████████████████████          0
[INFO] getting snapshot...
[00:00:00] getting snapshot...            ████████████████████████████████████████          0
error: Error accessing "/D/test"

[AxelPetermann]

Found the solution here: rustic/issues/998
Need to add "local:" in front of the path.

[aawsome]

The problem is that the syntax <SNAP>:<PATH> already exists and paths like D:/test do match on this - hence, rustic tries to find a snapshot starting with id d - which is not found in this case..