On Thursday 29 June 2006 18:09, Martin Simmons wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:26:44 +0300, Peteris Krisjanis said:
> >
> > I found a solution, or at least it could clasified as working
> > workaround, so I post it here for archives or someone else who has
> > problems with it.
> >
> > So, I have Bacula server/director/sd as Debian and client/fd as OS X
> > server. Bacula was installed trough Fink (in unstable/CVS packages,
> > compiled from tar.gz). I configured it common client for Bacula and
> > ensure it has right permitions to stream files to director.
> >
> > My problem was that I wanted to exclude files with Unicode characters
> > with it. So I wrote simply in bacula-dir.conf file unicode symbols
> > trough Gedit, restarted director and tried to launch my job. It failed
> > to recognize Unicode characters written in director's file and went on
> > with backup of these files, instead of excluding.
> >
> > First, I messed with various things like configuration file, tried the
> > same situation with Linux workstation (where this situation was
> > non-issue), etc. and then googled (and in same time got at least
> > informative message from mailing list, thanks everyone for suggestions)
> > and figured out that it is OS X different handling of Unicode on it's
> > HFS+ file systems. OS X uses different way of composing characters (so
> > called decomposed canonical format), so, it didn't understood simply
> > what I wanted from it.
> >
> > First of all I think Bacula should be fixed to support this, but as it
> > could take a quite time, but I loved Bacula and would like to have it as
> > backup solution, I searched for some workarounds. And here is one.
> >
> > What is needed - graphical terminal like Konsole or Terminal of GNOME
> > fame (or any other terminal with UTF-8 support). Open ssh connections to
> > Debian (server) and OS X (client). On both boxes locale should UTF-8
> > (en_US.UTF-8 on Mac, en_US.utf8 on Linux). On OS X box, do ls -lah or
> > simply ls to get OS X "version" of file name in Unicode (unicode chars
> > will mostly look like upper line). Simply do a Ctrl+C or copy, and then
> > go to Debian box, open bacula-dir.conf and go to FileSet you need to get
> > ths file/directory name in and paste it in. Save and restart bacula-dir
> > and go on with your jobs.
>
> I'm glad you found a solution. It is probably the best one for now.
>
> The issue is rather a nightmare, because on Linux you can probably create
> two files that differ only in their canonicalization. :-(
>
> Possibly Bacula needs to have an option (per fileset?) that controls
> unicode canonicalization/comparison, but it potentially spreads across the
> FD, Director and any restore guis.
Hello Martin,
What the devil is unicode canonicalization?
Do you mean ensuring that the UTF-8 is proper UTF-8 since it is possible to
write incorrect UTF-8, which more or less works (at least for display), or
are you talking about something like converting 16 bit Unicode to UTF-8?
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Best regards,
Kern
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