Re: [rdiff-backup-users] still has charset problems

[Farkas Levente]

Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> On Mar 16, 2008, at 9:35 AM, Farkas Levente wrote:
>
> > hi,
> > we use rdiff-backup-1.1.15 but while we backup cifs mounted win2003 
> > server we regularly get such errors bellow. the reason some kind of 
> > filename encoding. unfortunately we use some hungarian iso-8859-2 and 
> > some kind of koran chars in filename too;-( it'd be useful to fix it 
> > somehow. on the other hand while it's not fixed at least it'd be 
> > useful if rdiff-backup go further and skip those files and at least 
> > the other part of the file system would be backed up. since currently 
> > even if only one error occurred the whole backup process quit which is 
> > not really robust behavior.
>
> Hi Farkas,
>
> Thanks for the bug report. I have made the CVS version of rdiff-backup 
> robust to this kind of error. It's not clear to me whether the error is 
> due to rdiff-backup, the pyxattr module, or samba/cifs, but at least it 
> will no longer crash the backup.

can i wait a new release in the near future?

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