[Duplicity-talk] Re: Problem with "wb" mode on a FAT32 partition

[Marcin Zajączkowski]

Marcin Zajączkowski wrote:
> On 2007-04-17 23:44:31 +0200, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
(...)
>> Could you try creating a file on that partition with the same name as
>> the one duplicity was trying to use.  Windows (I'm guessing a windows
>> mount) has different filename character restrictions and the special
>> chars in the filename may be causing a problem.
> 
> Bingo!
> 
> address@hidden dosf]$ python
> Python 2.4.3 (#1, Oct 23 2006, 14:19:47)
> [GCC 4.1.1 20060525 (Red Hat 4.1.1-1)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> open('duplicity-full.2007-04-06T21:36:31+02:00.vol1.difftar.gpg', 'wb')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> IOError: invalid mode: wb
> 
> It seems to be problem with a file name. In my case with ":".
> rdiff-backup (which I use for local backups) at start display
> 
> Detected abilities for destination (read/write) file system:
>   Characters needing quoting                   '^a-z0-9_ -.'
> 
> and quoting other characters. This option could be added to Duplicity,
> but it seems to be not a small tweak and as I read on a mailing list
> there is a problem with maintaining.
> Fortunately (for me) I only made test on a fat32 partition and can use
> other to workaround a problem.

I've found a bug tracker and there an open bug regarding to that problem:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?9883


Btw, is someone able to remove spam from the comments?


Marcin