Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Probleme with rdiff on smbfs

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Oct 7, 2008, at 10:12 PM, EliW wrote:
> Just tonight I realized something ... I still have one 'small' issue.
>
> Currently, when doing backups, it's escaping all capitals, which is  
> annoying :)

It's also safer. Your SMB share does not differentiate uppercase from  
lowercase. If you have two files, README and Readme, then one will  
overwrite the other and you *WILL* lose data. That is why rdiff-backup  
escapes uppercase characters on systems which can't distinguish them.

Rdiff-backup tests for this automatically on startup and determines  
the appropriate course of action.

If you do the restore with rdiff-backup, it will automatically handle  
the necessary un-escaping.


> So, I go and make a new backup with a command such as:
> /usr/bin/rdiff-backup -v5 --override-chars-to-quote ';' /home/svn / 
> mounts/drobo/Backups/quiver.svn


Use --override-chars-to-quote ''

(don't put anything between the '')



Andrew