Hi, On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 11:28 AM <backu...@kosowsky.org> wrote:
> G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote at about 14:22:50 +0100 on > Wednesday, September 2, 2020: > > Hi there, > > > > On Wed, 2 Sep 2020, Mariano Aliaga wrote: > > > ... > > > tar:974 Fatal: Can't translate pathname './Ajuste Inflaci?n > A?o2019.xps' to UTF-8 > > > ... > > > ... So I wonder if this is a known bug, it's smbclient, backuppc, > > > tar or what? Is there some known workaround? I'd appreciate any help > > > you could give. > > > > I think it's a message from 'tar'. (That's because that's what it > says. :) > > > > It's not what I'd call a bug, it's the unfortunate result of the many > > changes to the capabilities of both utilties and filesystems over the > > time that they've been in use. There can be ambiguities when strings > > are translated between some character sets, and you really don't want > > that kind of ambiguity in file names. > > > > What's your output from 'locale'? > > > > Just a stab in the dark but you might try UTF-16, as mentioned here: > > > > https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/tar-cant-translate-pathname.32262/ > > > > Life was so simple when everything was done with 7-bit ASCII codes... > > > > -- > > > > 73, > > Ged. > > > > Agree with Ged... I have had similar issues with rsync over time > But two further items: > 1. Does the entire tar backup fail or does it just skip the offending > paths? > The entire (smb) backup fails. > 2. (This one is for Craig) It would be good if the error summaries > could better reflect the errors encountered by the transport > method. In this case, tar has a 'fatal' error, > tar:974 Fatal: Can't translate pathname './Ajuste Inflación Año > but the summary line says: > tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 7 filesExist, 289563505 sizeExist, > 285326858 sizeExistComp, 7 filesTotal, 289563505 sizeTotal, 0 > filesNew, 0 sizeNew, 0 sizeNewComp, 110 inodeLast > > It's never been clear to me which 'errors' get counted and which > don't... > > > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ >
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