On 13/04/10 02:05, Mark Coolen wrote:
> Hi;
> I'm backing up files from a Windows share connecting with cifs (samba)
> using autofs. I'm getting an error with files with apostrophes that the
> files doesn't exist and it lists the file path with a ? instead of the
> apostrophe.
First: Perhaps it'd be easier to just run a bacula-fd on the Windows
system, bypassing this issue and giving you reliable backup of files
that're open or being written to during the backup (using VSS) ?
If for some reason you can't do that, read on.
This sounds like a character encoding problem. Are they regular ASCII
apostrophes, or are they 'curly' apostrophes (proper inverted commas) ?
If you create a file name with other unicode characters, is it visible
or does it show up with "???" too? Try a filename like:
fileåæïöû
( this email is in utf-8, so if you're using a brain-dead mail client
that doesn't recognise the encoding declared in the header you might
have to save it and open it as a utf-8 text file in a text editor to see
the above ).
or:
立法院上午
(random text from news.google.com.tw)
If it turns out to be an encoding issue, you'll need to set the
`iocharset' mount option for mount.cifs correctly. See "man mount.cifs"
and the output of the "locale" command.
If your local encoding isn't utf-8 you won't be able to reliably back up
all possible files that may appear on a Windows system, as some
characters on the remote system will lack local equivalents.
--
Craig Ringer
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