Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Chinese characters in filenames on Cygwin + Win XP

[Andrew Ferguson]

Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> Qiqi Yan wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Thank you for your reply. But here comes more puzzles...and possibly
>> a bug of rdiff-backup.
>> 
>> Dave is right in that after --override-chars-to-quote there should be
>> a list of chars. The default is "^A-Za-z0-9_ -." for win XP.
>> 
>> For my purpose, I changed it to ":", and this command worked at the
>> first try:
>> 
>> rdiff-backup --override-chars-to-quote ":" /cygdrive/e/test/original
>> /cygdrive/e/test/backup
>> 
>> However, when this was run for a second time (without doing anything
>> else), this error showed up:
>> 
>> ---------------------------------------------------------- Fatal
>> Error: Bad rdiff-backup-data dir on destination side
>> 
>> The rdiff-backup data directory 
>> /cygdrive/e/test/backup/rdiff-backup-data exists, but we cannot find
>> a valid current_mirror marker.  You can avoid this message by
>> removing the rdiff-backup-data directory; however any data in it will
>> be lost.
> 
> Qiqi,
> 
> This is a bug in rdiff-backup. rdiff-backup is looking for a filename of
> the form "current_mirror*".
> 
> However, because of the quoting in effect during the first backup
> session, the name of the current_mirror marker was quoted! As a result,
> rdiff-backup can't find the correct, existing current_mirror file.

Thinking about this some more, you might want to try a 1.0.x version or
at least a version prior to 1.1.5.

Andrew

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