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[Duplicity-talk] Colons in the file names causing problems
From: |
Olivier Croquette |
Subject: |
[Duplicity-talk] Colons in the file names causing problems |
Date: |
Wed, 21 May 2008 09:05:17 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Macintosh/20070604) |
Hi!
I am using duplicity on MacOS X since several months now. Back then,
when writing my scripts, I was forced to use the option
"--short-filenames" when backing up to my NAS drive, otherwise it
wouldn't work. I didn't try to unterstand back then, but I just did.
The problem is that without "--short-file-names", duplicity creates
files with colons in their names. The colon is a reserved char in the
MacOS X filesystems:
$ touch duplicity-full.2005-03-05T19:40:45-07:00.vol9.difftar.gz
touch: duplicity-full.2005-03-05T19:40:45-07:00.vol9.difftar.gz: File
name too long
I replace then the ":" by "-":
$ touch duplicity-full.2005-03-05T19-40-45-07-00.vol9.difftar.gz
$ ls duplicity-full.2005-03-05T19-40-45-07-00.vol9.difftar.gz
duplicity-full.2005-03-05T19-40-45-07-00.vol9.difftar.gz
No problem!
After a short test, it seems that ":" is a reserved char on Windows too.
--short-filenames is a valid workaround, but has the big drawback that
filenames are not human-readable anymore.
It would be great to have a way to avoid the colons in the filenames. I
see at least 2 alternatives:
1. an explicit option, like there is "--short-file-names", ie.
"--portable-file-names"
or:
2. make the format without colons the default
I can start to write a patch, but I would like to have your opinion on
1. and 2. I would personnaly prefer 2. if we can make it backward
compatible. What do you think?
Best regards
Olivier
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- Re: [Duplicity-talk] Colons in the file names causing problems, --time-separator, Olivier Croquette, 2008/05/21
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] Colons in the file names causing problems, --time-separator, Kenneth Loafman, 2008/05/21
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] Colons in the file names causing problems, --time-separator, Olivier Croquette, 2008/05/21
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] Colons in the file names causing problems, --time-separator, Kenneth Loafman, 2008/05/21
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] Colons in the file names causing problems, --time-separator, Olivier Croquette, 2008/05/21