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wbadmin to include all volumes

I am not sure why but I ended having to use wbadmin to do a full backup of a server. I usually do a -criticalonly to get a bare-bone restore of some windows 2008 r2 servers but I needed a include everything a specific server had.

I took me almost an hour to figure out how to use the -include parameter.

As from technet or the embedded help:

-include       Specifies the comma-delimited list of items to include in the
backup. You can include multiple volumes. Volume paths can be
specified using volume drive letters, volume mount points, or
GUID-based volume names. If you use a GUID-based volume
name, it should be terminated with a backslash (\). You can
use the wildcard character (*) in the file name when
specifying a path to a file. Should be used only when the
-backupTarget parameter is used.

This said if I listed the volumes separated by a comma it would not let me. So just to save time to someone trying to do something like: wbadmin start backup -backuptarget:\\somewhere\here -systemstate -vssfull -allcritical -quiet -include:a:,b:,c:,d:,e:[...] to put the list of volumes to include between double quotes. -include:"a:,b:,c:,d:,e:[...]"

I cannot believe that this is not mentioned anywhere.