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

[Nate Eldredge]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Z F wrote:

> I am using ntfs-3g when mounting the partition.
>
> The output of duplicity list-current-files produces a clean name 
>
> ppt9B [Rp].ppt
>
>
> The restore process is trying to make
>
> ppt9B [R\xe9cup\xe9r\xe9].ppt
>
> the real name of the file is most likely (not sure) to be ppt9B\ 
> \[Rÿÿcupÿÿrÿÿ\].ppt
>
> Note strange shaped-letter J in the name which happens three times after R 
> after p and after r.
> Duplicity codes it as \xe9.
>
> I have tried creating a filename with this name on the NTFS partition where I 
> am restoring and it was created
> reproducing the strange J thing...

I don't have any experience with ntfs, but I read the man page for 
mount.ntfs-3g.  It says that it supports any character in a filename 
except / and \0, but there is a mount option "windows_names" which 
disallows certain characters (because they might confuse some Windows 
applications).  Is it possible you have that mount option enabled?

Otherwise, for a temporary workaround, it shouldn't be too hard to find 
the place in the duplicity code where it opens the file, and either make 
it continue when an error occurs, or else hack it to modify the filename 
somehow to make it legal.  If you were seriously considering making an LVM 
volume out of loopback devices then this should be a hack of much lower 
magnitude and well within your capabilities :)

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Nate Eldredge
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