> On 2 Sep 2025, at 11:24 PM, Graham Percival > <[email protected]> wrote: > > By the way, did you receive a: > Pathname in pax header can't be converted to current locale > error message? We should always be generating that message, as per > https://www.tarsnap.com/faq.html#locale-problems > > Granted, finding stderr from cron jobs can be awkward.
No I did not get this error. Besides my paths in fetched list of files (which were originally backed up by tarsnap-gui) were formed by chars like "§ ¶ ¬" etc. The one done by my cron env (before I set LANG) converted those same file names to octal i.e the way FAQ example shows.
