Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Restoring Windows file name to OS X

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Paul Smith <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Fri, 5 Aug 2005 17:14:37 -0500

> Someone in my network accidentally made a Windows "Shortcut" to the
> A: drive on their machine on a network drive, and that file name is
> something like "3 1/2 Floppy (A)" except the "1/2" is some f***ing
> Windows-encoded character. So it gets backed up okay because it gets
> escaped, but when I had to do an emergency full-restore today to
> said network drive, it bombs because the OS doesn't know how to
> write that "1/2" character. The network drive is on a Mac OS X
> Server.

Possible quick-fix:  just --exclude that file and don't restore it.
There are some other quoting problems people have reported, I'll look
at those all at once later.


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Ben Escoto