Re: [Duplicity-talk] restore OSError: [Errno 84]

[edgar . soldin]

On 18.04.2012 19:07, Bruce Pieterse wrote:
> On Wed 18 Apr 2012 17:19:47 SAST, address@hidden wrote:
>> On 18.04.2012 17:14, Roy Badami wrote:
>>> On 17/04/2012 21:10, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The problem is that you have some Unicode chars in the filename and I'm 
>>>> not sure if NTFS supports Unicode.
>>>>
>>>
>>> NTFS certainly does support Unicode - in fact I'm pretty sure it natively 
>>> uses 16-bit characters, as does pretty much everything in Windows NT 
>>> onwards.  (No idea if/how duplicity handles unicode in Windows filenames 
>>> though)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> that's right, although the mapping between filesystem charsets can be tricky 
>> sometimes...
>>
>> anyway,
>> A) what does duplicity report when you --list-current-files your backup? is 
>> this filename clean?
>> B) what is the offending file name supposed t look like?
>>
>> ..ede/duply.net
>>
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to add that I ran into a similar problem when I first 
> started using duplicity. I tried restoring a few files which was backed 
> up from EXT3 and tried to restore to NTFS and duplicity was not happy. 
> I managed to get a spare drive, format as EXT3 and the data was 
> restored.
> 

Roy, Bruce,

do/did you use ntfs-3g?

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