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Re: [Duplicity-talk] issues with exporting backups
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Re: [Duplicity-talk] issues with exporting backups |
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Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:38:17 +0100 |
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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:
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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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- [Duplicity-talk] issues with exporting backups, Quinn Shanahan, 2014/03/18
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] issues with exporting backups, edgar . soldin, 2014/03/18
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] issues with exporting backups, Quinn Shanahan, 2014/03/18
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] issues with exporting backups, Kenneth Loafman, 2014/03/18
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] issues with exporting backups,
edgar . soldin <=
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] issues with exporting backups, Quinn Shanahan, 2014/03/18
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] issues with exporting backups, Scott Hannahs, 2014/03/18
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] issues with exporting backups, Quinn Shanahan, 2014/03/18
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] issues with exporting backups, Scott Hannahs, 2014/03/18