>>>>> Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> wrote the following on Fri, 5 Aug 2005 17:14:37 -0500
> Someone in my network accidentally made a Windows "Shortcut" to the > A: drive on their machine on a network drive, and that file name is > something like "3 1/2 Floppy (A)" except the "1/2" is some f***ing > Windows-encoded character. So it gets backed up okay because it gets > escaped, but when I had to do an emergency full-restore today to > said network drive, it bombs because the OS doesn't know how to > write that "1/2" character. The network drive is on a Mac OS X > Server. Possible quick-fix: just --exclude that file and don't restore it. There are some other quoting problems people have reported, I'll look at those all at once later. -- Ben Escoto _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
