On Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 10:24:40 PM UTC+6, [email protected] wrote:
> Zitat von John Bolt <[email protected]>:
> 
> > The Bareos create_bareos_database script creates the database using  
> > the SQL_ASCII encoding.
> >
> > Will Bareos be able to backup and restore file names with weird  
> > letters like ü,ç,ã etc?
> >
> > Shouldn't we use Unicode (UTF8) for languages as Brazilian  
> > Portuguese for example?
> 
> To my knowledge the problem arises from the fact that it isn't clear  
> how to reliable detect what the real encoding of filenames is on any  
> supported OS. With this it is impossible to convert to UTF-8 and  
> reconvert at restore time without possibly trashing filenames. So  
> Bareos and Bacula BTW store the filenames as a sequence of bytes  
> *without* encoding at all with the intention to simply restore them  
> as-is. That's why ASCII is used to tell the DB to do nothing to check  
> if it is a valid charset.
> 
> Do you actually have a problem with filenames or was it just suspected  
> to be a problem?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Andreas

Hello!
unfortunately this is a problem.

When I try to find specific file to restore - I cann't.
The name in database is some strange code. bconsole didn't accepted path to 
this file, and Bareos-webui gives error "Oops, something went wrong, probably 
too many files." BAT crashes

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