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[rdiff-backup-users] Filenames with semicolon ; changed?
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Oliver Mulatz |
Subject: |
[rdiff-backup-users] Filenames with semicolon ; changed? |
Date: |
Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:55:26 +0100 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.x (X11) Mnenhy/0.7.6.0 |
Hi Ryan,
I am running 1.3.0 on Windows XP,
this version is the new development/unstable version, use with care
1) I've been trying rdiff-backup for the last few days, and wanted to see if
everything is actually copying correctly. I ran WinMerge to compare my source
> and dest directories, and everything seemed as it should, except:
"WFMU-FM 91.1Jersey City, NJ; 90.1Hudson Valley, NY.url"
is named
"WFMU-FM 91.1Jersey City, NJ;059 90.1Hudson Valley, NY.url"
in the destination dir,
By default, the ';' (semicolon) is the quotation character used for
escaping "special" characters in filenames, so the semicolon itself
needs to be quoted also, it's decimal number is 59, therefore ';059'.
(http://www.asciitable.com/).
It will be properly converted back upon restore.
For more information:
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/FAQ.html#case_insensitive
2) What is rdiff-backup --verify x:\dest
supposed to do? When I run it, I get these errors for many files
> in my old bookmarks directory:
Warning: Cannot find SHA1 digest for file BIG/URL/2004 2/BBS Documentary
Trailers.url,
perhaps because this feature was added in v1.1.1
I've never used an older version of rdiff-backup. The files in question were
copied over.
You're running Windows XP, so you use FAT or NTFS, right?
Are you doing a remote backup, from Linux filesystem to a windows one;
or doing a local backup only in Windows?
From your email I'd guess it's a remote backup, because the path is shown in
forward-slashes (BIG/URL/2004 2/BBS Documentary Trailers.url).
If a Linux-filesystem is involved, there was(/is?) an issue with not generating
SHA-digests for hardlinks (http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?20925).
It's cosmetic, so therefore it probably doesn't show up in the logs.
Cheers, Oliver