Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backing up from Linux to Windows?

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Jan 18, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> However,
>
> >>> os.listdir("\\\\?\\c:\\Temp\\")
> ['dest', 'source', 'test', 'test-dest']
> >>> os.listdir("\\\\?\\c:\\Temp")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> WindowsError: [Error 123] The filename, directory name, or volume  
> label syntax is incorrect: '\\\\?\\c:\\Temp/*.*'
>
> so, \\?\C:\Temp\ works, but \\?\C:\Temp fails. WTF?


And a followup, almost as a note, if we change to unicode, then it  
works...

>>> os.listdir("\\\\?\\c:\\Temp")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
WindowsError: [Error 123] The filename, directory name, or volume  
label syntax is incorrect: '\\\\?\\c:\\Temp/*.*'
>>> os.listdir(u"\\\\?\\c:\\Temp")
[u'dest', u'source', u'test', u'test-dest']


Gah.


Andrew