Drush on windows - back up goes missing I am new to drupal and drush, so please do not close this if it's naive.

My setup:


Windows 7
Xampp 1.8.3 (PHP 5.5.6/Apache 2.4.7/PHP 5.5.6)
Drupal 7.26
Drush 6.3-dev


Intention: 

Back up my site and restore on a separate machine using drush
    archive-dump and drush archive-restore

Action: I went into the folder where I have installed drupal and issued the command drush archive-dump

Result: 

Archive saved to                                                            [ok]

C:\Users\srihari.sahu/drush-backups/archive-dump/20140206101025/drup
al.20140206_101027.tar.gz
C:\Users\srihari.sahu/drush-backups/archive-dump/20140206101025/drup
al.20140206_101027.tar.gz


When I go in the folder C:\Users\srihari.sahu\drush-backups\archive-dump\20140206101025\ I don't see anything. The folder is blank.

What am I missing?
This is a known issue for drush in Windows, along with several others regarding sql operations and rsync. The best solution I know so far is described in:

https://drupal.org/node/1393672