Thank you Andrew, the hint about ntfs-3g settings seems to have helped
(I'll know for sure in the morning). But still, IOError should be
handled ;-)
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rdiff-backup fails on a directory with an unknown Unicode character
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Well that's good -- at least rdiff-backup isn't failing to make a
directory which the shell can easily create. :-)
Actually, I think you might be able to avoid this problem entirely if you set
the right options in your shell. A search for "ntfs-3g invalid or incomplete
multibyte or wide charact
Sorry, forgot to add - the destination filesystem is NTFS
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Hi, thanks for the response! I'd definitely prefer if rdiff-backup
handled the error gracefully by skipping the dir (and logging it
somewhere?) rather than crashing (and thus stopping a backup expected to
run overnight).
I couldn´t create a directory with "á" in it from shell either (so
technicall
Hmm, yes. The previous fix only applied to files which generate the
"Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character" error.
Unfortunately, with a directory, it isn't clear what to do. Should
rdiff-backup skip the entire directory since it can't create it on the
destination? (Analogous to what i
