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

[Charles Knowlton]

Yes that would be good if someone could remove the SPAM.  It will  
make it better when it comes to searching for something on the  
mailing list.

Regards,
Charles Knowlton

On Apr 27, 2007, at 4:00 PM, Marcin Zajączkowski wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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