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

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Jan 27, 2009, at 4:46 PM, Thanos Diacakis wrote:
> 1.  The MSDN article describes the naming of files, but I am not  
> sure what is the "magic" it suggests...?

Once the article starts explaining about the \\?\ prefix, that seemed  
like a terrible hack to me.... :-/

> 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?

Sorry for the confusion, I meant the actual Python source of rdiff- 
backup. It will need to use Unicode for its operations in order to  
support long filenames on Windows (since the Windows non-Unicode API  
is limited to < 260 characters, as the MSDN article explains).

Moving the Python source to use rdiff-backup goes hand-in-hand with  
supporting Python 3, so this effort will take some time.


Andrew