Re: [Duplicity-talk] Re: Problems with colons in the filenames

[Kenneth Loafman]

Eric B. wrote:
> "Eric B." <address@hidden> wrote in message 
> Aha - after screwing my brains in properly, realized that it wasn't a 
> charset that I needed but the mapchars argument to the mount command.
> # mount -t cifs //bashful.domain.com/backups /mount/bashful/backup -o 
> username=eric,password=eric,mapchars
> 
> Now the colons work fine.

Glad you found a solution.  I must look up mapchars to see what it does.

> However, this still does bring up the question if any consideration was 
> given to ensuring that the chars used in duplicity's filenames are cross-OS 
> compatible?

Yes, see previous message.

> Has anyone tried running duplicity from a Cygwin environment?

That's the only way to run it under Windows since windows does not
understand filesystems, only disks.

...Ken

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