On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 23:46 +0200, Ben Kenward wrote: > I am having a problem rsyncing files with accents in the names.
> I am running rsync on a QNAP > TS-109 which is a NAS device running a kind of debian linux. Also on > the network is a Lacie network drive formatted with FAT32, which I > mount from the QNAP using samba. I am trying to set up a regular back > up the contents of the QNAP to the Lacie. The problem is that any > filename which has accents in gets mangled. The files copy across but > the accents are mangled: if I view the files by mounting the Lacie > drive on Windows then the accents appear as the box special character, > repeated between around 10 and 50 times (with the rest of the filename > truncated); if I view the files using ls while ssh'ed into the QNAP > then accented character does not appear at all and the rest of the > filename is truncated. > > A further strange behaviour is that when directories contain accented > characters, around 10 or so copies of them are created, each with > varying numbers of the box special character. I have never known rsync itself to mangle names: when it creates files on the destination, it uses the same bytes returned by readdir on the source unless you request conversion with --iconv. Consult the Samba documentation and/or mailing list for information about how it handles encodings. If you know what encoding the network drive supports, you may be able to fix the problem with rsync's --iconv option. Matt
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