Re: [Duplicity-talk] issues with exporting backups

[Quinn Shanahan]

I'm not totally sure what magic is making this possible, but I as i mentioned previously if you do look at the file in the terminal (e.g. 'ls -l') the file will be displayed with a colon instead of a slash. Another example: if you run `touch "what : the"` and look at the file in Finder, it appears as a slash. So I guess colons are always rendered as slashes in Finder, and Finder gives a warning if you try to name a file with a colon in it. Interesting. Are colons disallowed in ext4 / ubuntu (the target OS / FS)? re: path separator, it is the same as (almost) everything: /

Quinn

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:38 AM, <address@hidden> wrote:

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?
>
>
>

> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Quinn Shanahan <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     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
>
>

>     On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:55 AM, <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>         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.
>

>         ..ede/duply.net <http://duply.net>
>
>         _______________________________________________
>         Duplicity-talk mailing list
>         address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>

>         https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/duplicity-talk
>
>
>
>     _______________________________________________
>     Duplicity-talk mailing list

>     address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>

>     https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/duplicity-talk
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Duplicity-talk mailing list
> address@hidden
> https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/duplicity-talk
>

_______________________________________________
Duplicity-talk mailing list
address@hidden
https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/duplicity-talk