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[Rdiff-backup-bugs] [bug #26699] Windows file systems do not allow certa
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[Rdiff-backup-bugs] [bug #26699] Windows file systems do not allow certain trailing characters in file or folder names |
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Wed, 27 May 2009 14:25:15 +0000 |
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Summary: Windows file systems do not allow certain trailing
characters in file or folder names
Project: rdiff-backup
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Wed 27 May 2009 02:25:13 PM UTC
Category: None
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
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Details:
Windows' NTFS and FAT32 filesystems do not allow files or folders to
terminate with the space character (" ") or the period ("."). When backing-up
from a non-Windows system to a Windows host, this will likely result in an
error. These trailing characters need to be escaped in the same way as other
illegal characters, such as asterisk ("*").
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An example I recently encountered is below (paths sanitized to protect the
innocent):
Exception '[Errno 2] No such file or directory:
"/cygdrive/g/path_to_backup_folder/offending foldername /somefile.txt" raised
of class '<type 'exceptions.IOError'>':
With verbose logging, I see that "/cygdrive/g/path_to_backup_folder/offending
foldername /" was created as "/cygdrive/g/path_to_backup_folder/offending
foldername/" (note that the trailing space has been truncated) which is why
all the subsequent attempts fail.
Notes: In the above example, the CLIENT machine was OSX Tiger 10.4.11,
running rdiff-backup 1.2.8 and the SERVER is Windows Server 2008 x64 (SP1)
running cygwin sshd and rdiff-backup 1.2.8 non-WIN32 version.
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