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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