padoivi wrote: > Hi, > > Seduced by the reverse diff and mirroring capabilities of > rdiff-backup, I decided to start using it. > > Everything is working fine but I get problems with files or > directories names containing capital letters such as "Documentation" > which names get converted into things like ";068ocumentation" (the > worst case being with file names such as "README or INSTALL").
This is not a problem. It will be restored exactly as it was originally. The FAQ explains this clearly (http://stderr.org/doc/rdiff-backup/FAQ.html#case_insensitive). Basically, rdiff-backup keeps the mirror "plain text" (so to speak) as much as possible, but sometimes it needs to do escaping to faithfully represent the source filesystem. There are other examples of this, such as ACLs. Since NTFS is case-preserving but not case-sensitive, when backing up to it, rdiff-backup /could/ (for example) backup documentation as documentation and only resort to ;068ocumentation if there is later a Documentation file or folder (in addition to lower-case documentation). However, this is a feature request not a bug. > I am backing up from an ext3 filesystem (Linux, Ubuntu Hardy) to an > ntfs filesystem (external hard drive, USB 2.0 connection) which are > both supposed to be case sensitive. > > I tried the --override-chars-to-quote option (reading from various > forum posts) but I get the following error message : Don't do that then. :) As documented, --override-chars-to-quote overrides the default quoting behavior described in the FAQ and man page. It is /only safe/ to use the override when you are backing up to a case-sensitive filesystem and rdiff-backup doesn't realize this (which would be a bug in rdiff-backup). NTFS is not case-sensitive, so rdiff-backup is right here, and --over Matt Flaschen _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
