Andrew -- that did the trick! Thanks, and sorry not to get back to you right away. Keep up the great work (and prompt assistance), I really appreciate it. Elliott.
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Andrew Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Oct 12, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Elliott Yates wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I'm trying to set up rdiff-backup to copy a set of directories >> (eventually, my entire Linux system) from several ext3 partitions to a >> single FAT32 external USB drive (so I can recover files easily to other >> operating systems). I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 and rdiff-backup 1.1.15, but when >> I run the following command: >> > > Hi Elliott, > > It looks like you have a space at the end of the folder named "SSHRC > Application 2009-2010 ". > > Spaces at the *end* of a file or folder name are not allowed on FAT > filesystems (although they are allowed elsewhere in the name). If you remove > the space from the end of the name of that folder, you'll be fine. > > I'll look into adding support for escaping spaces at the end of the > filename so that rdiff-backup can workaround this FAT32 limitation. > > > Andrew >
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