>It looks like the ext3 filesystem does not support your Windows-1250 files > natively.
Yes that seems to be the problem or maybe rather then filesystem, system encoding is the problem. >Using rdiff-backup over ssh to or from Windows is the recommended, > and best, solution not only because it fixes the filenames, but because it > restores the Windows metadata as well (which Linux/ext3 does not preserve on > its own). But I am using rdiff-backup + plink (ssh). > Another option would be to use the --override-chars-to-quote option and > quote the native characters (see the recent posts on the list for how to get > that working before 1.2.6 is released). > Will try as soon as I get the chance. 2009/1/8 Andrew Ferguson <[email protected]>: > On Jan 8, 2009, at 3:31 AM, Gregy wrote: >>> >>> Given that it restores back to Windows correctly, that doesn't sound >>> like a bug to me. rdiff-backup is not meant to do any character >>> reencoding. >>> >>> Matt Flaschen >> >> Problem is that I cannot restore the backup any other way then via ssh >> to windows. > > Gregy, > > Did you catch what Matt first wrote: > > The problem is Linux naturally doesn't have first class support for > Windows 1250, since it's a proprietary Microsoft encoding > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1250). See e.g. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/112089 > > > It looks like the ext3 filesystem does not support your Windows-1250 files > natively. Using rdiff-backup over ssh to or from Windows is the recommended, > and best, solution not only because it fixes the filenames, but because it > restores the Windows metadata as well (which Linux/ext3 does not preserve on > its own). > > Another option would be to use the --override-chars-to-quote option and > quote the native characters (see the recent posts on the list for how to get > that working before 1.2.6 is released). > > > Andrew > _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
