Re: [Duplicity-talk] restore OSError: [Errno 84]

[Bruce Pieterse]

On Thu 19 Apr 2012 13:53:31 SAST, address@hidden wrote:
> On 18.04.2012 19:07, Bruce Pieterse wrote:
>> On Wed 18 Apr 2012 17:19:47 SAST, address@hidden wrote:
>>> On 18.04.2012 17:14, Roy Badami wrote:
>>>> On 17/04/2012 21:10, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The problem is that you have some Unicode chars in the filename and I'm 
>>>>> not sure if NTFS supports Unicode.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> NTFS certainly does support Unicode - in fact I'm pretty sure it natively 
>>>> uses 16-bit characters, as does pretty much everything in Windows NT 
>>>> onwards.  (No idea if/how duplicity handles unicode in Windows filenames 
>>>> though)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> that's right, although the mapping between filesystem charsets can be 
>>> tricky sometimes...
>>>
>>> anyway,
>>> A) what does duplicity report when you --list-current-files your backup? is 
>>> this filename clean?
>>> B) what is the offending file name supposed t look like?
>>>
>>> ..ede/duply.net
>>>
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>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to add that I ran into a similar problem when I first
>> started using duplicity. I tried restoring a few files which was backed
>> up from EXT3 and tried to restore to NTFS and duplicity was not happy.
>> I managed to get a spare drive, format as EXT3 and the data was
>> restored.
>>
>
> Roy, Bruce,
>
> do/did you use ntfs-3g?
>
> ..ede
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Yes.

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Bruce

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