Re: [rdiff-backup-users] strange characters in backup

[Charles Duffy]

John Joseph Bachir wrote:
> Hello. I just started using rdiff-backup. Everything seems to be going 
> as expected, except the first letter of every filename is in 
> represented as what I'm guessing is a numeric index from a character set.
>
> Applications: ;065pplications
> Desktop: ;068esktop
>
> Is this normal? I am running on OS X, source and destination are 
> drives mounted on the same system.
Yes, it's normal, and the names will come out as you expect them on 
restore. (Think about the corner cases involved in backing up a 
case-sensitive filesystem to a case-insensitive one if that logic 
weren't in place!)