Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Long filename errors?

[Thanos Diacakis]

Thanks Andrew.  Two followups:

1.  The MSDN article describes the naming of files, but I am not sure  
what is the "magic" it suggests...?
2.  I looked over the archives and wiki for "unicode" but did not find  
anything on how to switch the backup source to it.  Do you have a more  
specific pointer by any chance?

Thanks

Thanos

On Jan 27, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Andrew Ferguson wrote:

> On Jan 26, 2009, at 1:45 PM, Thanos Diacakis wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am backing up from OSX to XP over ssh and I am getting these two  
> > errors:
> >
> > UpdateError Documents/Family/Salamina/Aγωγές χαμένες- 
> > κατάσταση αρχείων/.svn/prop-base/rdiff- 
> > backup.tmp.3 [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'z:\ 
> > \LuciferBackup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/Documents/Family/ 
> > Salamina/A\xce\xb3\xcf\x89\xce\xb3\xce\xb5\xcc\x81\xcf\x82 \xcf 
> > \x87\xce\xb1\xce\xbc\xce\xb5\xcc\x81\xce\xbd\xce\xb5\xcf\x82-\xce 
> > \xba\xce\xb1\xcf\x84\xce\xb1\xcc\x81\xcf\x83\xcf\x84\xce\xb1\xcf 
> > \x83\xce\xb7 \xce\xb1\xcf\x81\xcf\x87\xce\xb5\xce\xb9\xcc\x81\xcf 
> > \x89\xce\xbd/.svn/prop-base/\xce\x95\xcf\x80\xce\xb1\xce\xbc.+\xce 
> > \x95\xce\xbb\xce\xb5\xcf\x85\xce\xb8.\xce\xa0\xce\xb5\xcf\x84\xcf 
> > \x81\xce\xbf\xcf\x80\xce\xbf\xcf\x85\xce\xbb\xce\xb5\xcc\x81\xce 
> > \xb1\xcf\x82.xlsx.svn-base. 
> > 2009-01-26T01;05815;05804-08;05800.missing'
> >
> > UpdateError Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/ 
> > #SharedObjects/285UJ56S/entertainment.mtvnservices.com/[[IMPORT]]/ 
> > media.mtvnservices.com/player/release/rdiff-backup.tmp.369 [Errno  
> > 2] No such file or directory: 'z:\\LuciferBackup/rdiff-backup-data/ 
> > increments/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/ 
> > #SharedObjects/285UJ56S/entertainment.mtvnservices.com/[[IMPORT]]/ 
> > media.mtvnservices.com/player/release/MetadataHistoryProxy.sol. 
> > 2009-01-26T01;05815;05804-08;05800.snapshot.gz'
> >
> > Looks like the filenames may be too long, but should that not give  
> > a different error?
>
>
> Thanos,
>
> UpdateError is something of a generic non-fatal error that occurs  
> during updating. Getting Windows to support filenames longer than  
> ~250 characters involves moving the rdiff-backup source to use  
> Unicode for all strings and then some additional magic as described  
> here:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx
>
> See the mailing list archives for some more discussion.
>
>
> regards,
> Andrew