Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Charset problem windows->linux backup

[Gregy]

Samba can do this very nicely but I see where are you going. I guess
there is simply no easy way of doing this.

2009/1/8 Andrew Ferguson <address@hidden>:
>
> On Jan 8, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Gregy wrote:
>
>>> It looks like the ext3 filesystem does not support your Windows-1250
>>> files
>>> natively.
>>
>> Yes that seems to be the problem or maybe rather then filesystem,
>> system encoding is the problem.
>
> Yes. And there is nothing rdiff-backup can do about that without extensive
> re-working. (Nor, should it really be expected to, I think.)
>
>>> Using rdiff-backup over ssh to or from Windows is the recommended,
>>> and best, solution not only because it fixes the filenames, but because
>>> it
>>> restores the Windows metadata as well (which Linux/ext3 does not preserve
>>> on
>>> its own).
>>
>> But I am using rdiff-backup + plink (ssh).
>
>
> Correct. The files are fixed on the *restore* ... no Unix software is
> capable of implementing the Windows-1250 filenames on the Linux destination,
> unless the OS + filesystem cooperate. And even if the OS + filesystem
> cooperated for the filenames, the other Windows-only attributes could only
> be fixed on the restore anyway. So, it's important to use rdiff-backup for
> the restore unless 100% impossible.
>
>
> Andrew
>