Re: [Duplicity-talk] issues with exporting backups

[edgar . soldin]

Mac OS used to have colon ':' as path separator in the versions before OSX. 
they probably hacked a compatibility layer for users still wanting to use 
slashes in the file names.

..ede

On 18.03.2014 14:33, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> Not sure how you can have slashes in a filename... what's the path separator?
> 
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> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Quinn Shanahan <address@hidden 
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>     Cool, thanks for your help! I'll file a bug report. I'd be happy to fix 
> it too, any advice at a place in the code to start looking would be great. 
> 
>     Quinn
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>     On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:55 AM, <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> 
> wrote:
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>         On 18.03.2014 12:53, Quinn Shanahan wrote:
>         > Hi, I experienced two issues while "checking out" my backup:
>         >
>         > 1. All the timestamps were reset. I read online that this could be 
> because the target does not have the user / groups the original machine did. 
> I don't really care about preserving the original user and groups, but I do 
> want the timestamps. Is there any workaround for this?
> 
>         restore as root. duplicity can restore file attributes only as 
> superuser somehow. dunno why.
> 
>         > 2. OS X allows slashes (/) in filenames (they read as colons when 
> printed in the terminal). When duplicity creates the file, it gives it a name 
> like: AGO2OZ~A.DOC when the orginal filename was something like "ago / 
> something.doc".
>         >
>         > any help is greatly appreciated! I apologize if I overlooked 
> something in the doc that would explain this.
>         >
> 
>         that's probably a bug in duplicity, which probably occurs rarely 
> because of the few mac users + the idea to name files like that. please file 
> a bug at launchpad but do not expect someone to jump at solving it.
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