I'm having trouble using rdiff-backup 1.2 to backup from NTFS and Ext3 to a FAT32 flash drive.
I've read the rdiff-backup manual and noticed that I should probably be using the "--override-chars-to-quote" option, but it's not being accepted. I get a very different error message when using this option.
For example, I've tried using the following lines. The only difference between them is the presence of the "--override-chars-to-quote" option in the second case. I've attached the error output from both in "1.txt" and "2.txt" respectively.
- /usr/bin/rdiff-backup --exclude-globbing-filelist exclusions --include-globbing-filelist flash.list --group-mapping-file mapping --user-mapping-file mapping --create-full-path --no-hard-links / /media/Flash/Backup/RDB/
- /usr/bin/rdiff-backup --exclude-globbing-filelist exclusions --include-globbing-filelist flash.list --group-mapping-file mapping --user-mapping-file mapping --create-full-path --no-hard-links --override-chars-to-quote / /media/Flash/Backup/RDB/
Here's the relevant line from my "/etc/fstab" file:
LABEL=FLASH /media/Flash vfat defaults,relatime,users,exec,noauto,shortname=mixed 0 0
You'll notice that I'm using the "shortname=mixed" option, which means that the filenames are displayed using the correct case. The 'mount' manual states this option as meaning:
Display the short name as is; store a long name when the short name is not all upper case.
Why isn't the "--override-chars-to-quote" option working in my case? What must I change to get rdiff-backup working with my FAT32 flash drive? Thanks in advance for your help.
1.txt