Re: [rdiff-backup-users] long filename error

[John covici]

I hope you at least give a warning so people will know the file was
not backed up.

on Tuesday 01/06/2009 Andrew Ferguson(address@hidden) wrote
 > 
 > On Jan 4, 2009, at 4:11 AM, Ryan wrote:
 > 
 > > Under Windows XP with version 1.3.0, if I try to back up the  
 > > following file,
 > >
 > > "C:\important stuff 
 > > \1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
 > >  
 > > "
 > >
 > > I get:
 > >
 > > Traceback (most recent call last):
 > >   File "rdiff-backup", line 30, in <module>
 > >   File "rdiff_backup\Main.pyc", line 309, in error_check_Main
 > >   File "rdiff_backup\robust.pyc", line 77, in is_routine_fatal
 > > NameError: global name 'e' is not defined
 > 
 > 
 > Hi Ryan,
 > 
 > Thanks for reporting this error. The error message is unhelpful  
 > because of a typo. I am fixing that in the next release.
 > 
 > The next release will also allow rdiff-backup to ignore (some? all?)  
 > of the errors caused by too-long filenames on Windows. It does not yet  
 > backup such files. See this thread on the mailing list for the  
 > explanation: 
 > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2008-10/msg00117.html
 > 
 > Basically, rdiff-backup will need to move to Unicode file handling and  
 > prepend "\\\\?\\" to each Windows path in order to support long paths  
 > & filenames ( > 255 characters, or so). That is something for the  
 > development branch, possibly even for the next one.
 > 
 > 
 > Andrew
 > 
 > 
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