Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Chinese characters in filenames on Cygwin + Win XP

[Qiqi Yan]

Hi all,

Thank you for your reply. But here comes more puzzles...and possibly a bug of 
rdiff-backup.

Dave is right in that after --override-chars-to-quote there should be a list of 
chars. The default is "^A-Za-z0-9_ -." for win XP.

For my purpose, I changed it to ":", and this command worked at the first try:

rdiff-backup --override-chars-to-quote ":" /cygdrive/e/test/original 
/cygdrive/e/test/backup 

However, when this was run for a second time (without doing anything else), 
this error showed up:

----------------------------------------------------------
Fatal Error: Bad rdiff-backup-data dir on destination side

The rdiff-backup data directory
/cygdrive/e/test/backup/rdiff-backup-data
exists, but we cannot find a valid current_mirror marker.  You can
avoid this message by removing the rdiff-backup-data directory;
however any data in it will be lost.

Probably this error was caused because the first rdiff-backup session
into a new directory failed.  If this is the case it is safe to delete
the rdiff-backup-data directory because there is no important
information in it.
----------------------------------------------------------

I tried to add more symbols like ":?*<>|\"\\/", but didn't work either. I don't 
know if I am missing any symbol that has to be quoted?

I also did the test Kevin suggested, but without using 
--override-chars-to-quote. What surprised me was that, the files simply went 
missing! and couldn't be restored! Is this a bug? I am using 1.1.5. Maybe will 
retest it tomorrow using 1.1.7.

Best,
Qiqi



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Kempe" <address@hidden>
To: "Qiqi Yan" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 3:52 AM
Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Chinese characters in filenames on Cygwin + 
Win XP


> It should take a list of chars to quote to override as arguments I 
> think. On windows I have used
> 
> --override-chars-to-quote '' I think...
> 
> dave
> 
> 
> Qiqi Yan wrote:
>> What's wrong? I noticed the semicolons in the file name mentioned in the 
>> message, which I guess is the cause. (semicolons are not allowed in MS 
>> windows.) Do they appear because of --override-chars-to-quote? Any way to 
>> get around it?
>>
>> I've little experience with cygwin or linux. Hope I've been clear enough.
>>
>>