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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] long filename error
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John covici |
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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] long filename error |
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Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:01:17 -0500 |
I hope you at least give a warning so people will know the file was
not backed up.
on Tuesday 01/06/2009 Andrew Ferguson(address@hidden) wrote
>
> On Jan 4, 2009, at 4:11 AM, Ryan wrote:
>
> > Under Windows XP with version 1.3.0, if I try to back up the
> > following file,
> >
> > "C:\important stuff
> > \1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
> >
> > "
> >
> > I get:
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "rdiff-backup", line 30, in <module>
> > File "rdiff_backup\Main.pyc", line 309, in error_check_Main
> > File "rdiff_backup\robust.pyc", line 77, in is_routine_fatal
> > NameError: global name 'e' is not defined
>
>
> Hi Ryan,
>
> Thanks for reporting this error. The error message is unhelpful
> because of a typo. I am fixing that in the next release.
>
> The next release will also allow rdiff-backup to ignore (some? all?)
> of the errors caused by too-long filenames on Windows. It does not yet
> backup such files. See this thread on the mailing list for the
> explanation:
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2008-10/msg00117.html
>
> Basically, rdiff-backup will need to move to Unicode file handling and
> prepend "\\\\?\\" to each Windows path in order to support long paths
> & filenames ( > 255 characters, or so). That is something for the
> development branch, possibly even for the next one.
>
>
> Andrew
>
>
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