Filipe writes:
> I started using the archive function now.
> The hosts that I archived have a lot of folders/files with special
> characters like "á ã ç ô ó" and if I extract the tar.gz or tar.bz2 on
> windows it becomes all messed up...
> An example is a folder called "Cópia" becomes "C¾pia"
> I was about to give up on this function, and then i remember to tar xvzf
> the archive in linux. then, from the samba share when i extracted it, i
> can see the names correctly..
>
> Is there any explanation for this ? can I fix it so I could extract it
> correctly on windows?
> I use 7-zip on windows.
> And I have a lot of trouble to put char codes working correctly on the
> backuppc machine.
Are you using 3.0.0beta? In 3.x, $Conf{ClientCharset} specifies the
client's charset encoding. BackupPC_tarCreate converts all the file
names back to that encoding, plus it supports a "-e charset" option
that allows you to override the charset encoding.
Craig
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