Tomasz Chmielewski writes: > Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > > I have a big windows share to backup, it contains lots of user data, and > > therefore, I have plenty of international characters there. > > > > Unfortunately, this is where BackupPC fails to do the job :( > > > > smb method just breaks on "strange" filenames, and when I used rsyncd, > > it converts all "strange" characters into ? > > > > For example, "Üöäü" on the Windows side, would be "????" in the backup, > > when made with rsync (I extracted the backup to see what happens). > > > > Has anyone more experience with BackupPC and UTF8 filenames? > > It seems that this is an upstream Cygwin/rsync issue. > > I tried applying iconv.diff patch to rsync on Cygwin, but rsync doesn't > want to compile then.
BackupPC 3.0.0 cvs supports different client charsets (although there is one remaining issue in cvs I still need to fix). In 3.x the server charset is always utf8. The new support allows you to specify the client charset (default utf8), and BackupPC will convert the charsets to/from utf8. Samba by default converts for you, but rsync does not. Craig ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
