Hi Avi Please have a look at this link, this is how to install Bacula with MYSQL database with Hebrew support
Eitan On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Avi Rozen <avi.ro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Craig Ringer wrote: > > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> Thanks for all the answers; I am a bit overwhelmed by the number, so I > am > >> going to try to answer everyone in one email. > >> > >> The first thing to understand is that it is *impossible* to know what > the > >> encoding is on the client machine (FD -- or File daemon). On say a > >> Unix/Linux system, the user could create filenames with non-UTF-8 then > switch > >> to UTF-8, or restore files that were tarred on Windows or on Mac, or > simply > >> copy a Mac directory. Finally, using system calls to create a file, you > can > >> put *any* character into a filename. > >> > > > > While true in theory, in practice it's pretty unusual to have filenames > > encoded with an encoding other than the system LC_CTYPE on a modern > > UNIX/Linux/BSD machine. > > > > In my case garbage filenames are all too common. It's a the sad > *reality*, when you're mixing languages (Hebrew and English in my case) > and operating systems. Garbage filenames are everywhere: directories and > files shared between different operating systems and file systems, mail > attachments, mp3 file names based on garbage id3 tags, files in zip > archives (which seem to not handle filename encoding at all), etc. > > When I first tried Bacula (version 1.38), I expected to have trouble > with filenames, since this is what I'm used to. I was rather pleased to > find out that it could both backup and restore files, regardless of > origin and destination filename encoding. > > I like Bacula because, among other things, it can take the punishment > and chug along, without me even noticing that there was supposed to be a > problem (a recent example: backup/restore files with a negative mtime ...) > > My 2c > Avi > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, > a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. > Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > bacula-us...@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >
