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From: | Andrew Ferguson |
Subject: | Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Charset problem windows->linux backup |
Date: | Thu, 8 Jan 2009 17:25:51 -0500 |
On Jan 8, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Gregy wrote:
It looks like the ext3 filesystem does not support your Windows-1250 filesnatively.Yes that seems to be the problem or maybe rather then filesystem, system encoding is the problem.
Yes. And there is nothing rdiff-backup can do about that without extensive re-working. (Nor, should it really be expected to, I think.)
Using rdiff-backup over ssh to or from Windows is the recommended,and best, solution not only because it fixes the filenames, but because it restores the Windows metadata as well (which Linux/ext3 does not preserve onits own).But I am using rdiff-backup + plink (ssh).
Correct. The files are fixed on the *restore* ... no Unix software is capable of implementing the Windows-1250 filenames on the Linux destination, unless the OS + filesystem cooperate. And even if the OS + filesystem cooperated for the filenames, the other Windows-only attributes could only be fixed on the restore anyway. So, it's important to use rdiff-backup for the restore unless 100% impossible.
Andrew
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