Hi Steve - I posted a similar question a few days ago as I was getting
warnings like:
28/11/2008 15:47:16 mdworker[1065] (Warning) Import: Bad path:/Volumes/
backup_hd/Backups/xxxxxxxx-4.local/Profiles/XXXXXXXX/daily.0/Start
Menu/current/$my/Sudtirol/S�dtirol.xls
In this path the file name "Südtirol.xls" (with u umlaut) has its
umlaut replaced by "�" (black diamond with a question mark). I added
comments in brackets as I'm not sure how these characters will print
on other peoples screens.
I'm very interested in the outcome of this issue.
Cheers
Michael
On 1 Dec 2008, at 17:15, Steve Lefevre wrote:
I'm using cygwin to backup files from a windows machine to a unix host
with rsync. I originally uploaded the bulk of the files using a
windows ftp client, and then planned on doing updates nightly with
rsync.
Some of the filenames have strange characters in them, such as the
trademark symbol, and other characters, such as European letters.
Rsync doesn't like the filenames as they exist on the server; it
deletes them and uploads the same files with escaped characters in the
filename.
I was looking for what switch to use to tell rsync to use a windows
character set, and it seems like I need to use is --iconv, but i'm
unsure what character set windows uses ( this is xp ), or in other
words, what the argument should be.
I suppose one solution is to let rsync be in charge of the filename
character sets, but I want to make sure that if we have to pull from
our rsync backup, that we aren't getting strange characters. My upload
isn't finished yet, so I haven't be able to test a download.
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