Automating windows usage

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I use blat for emailing successes, or in some cases just errors. You’ll want to ensure you schedule repo checks as well as forget+prune. If using Windows 10 and the task scheduler, I’ve come across the following two (batshit crazy) regressions since Win7:

  • If restic.exe is in a path with a space then the Command Line field has to be unquoted, and then you have to accept the error. This will then munge the path and arguments items across the Command Line and Arguments fields but it will still work. Trust, but verify, however! If you don’t do this, Windows will double-quote the lot and it will fail to execute.
  • If you edit a task after creating it, you must re-set the user account the task uses, otherwise the task will fail. So each time you edit a task, go back to the General tab, click “Change User or Group”, enter the user name, hit OK and enter the password again.