[rdiff-backup-users] strange characters in backup

2007-05-20 Thread John Joseph Bachir
Hello. I just started using rdiff-backup. Everything seems to be going as expected, except the first letter of every filename is in represented as what I'm guessing is a numeric index from a character set. Applications: ;065pplications Desktop: ;068esktop Is this normal? I am running on OS X,

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] strange characters in backup

2007-05-20 Thread John Joseph Bachir
On 5/20/07, Charles Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, it's normal, and the names will come out as you expect them on restore. (Think about the corner cases involved in backing up a case-sensitive filesystem to a case-insensitive one if that logic weren't in place!) Okay, I suspected some

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] --carbonfile option

2007-05-20 Thread Andrew Ferguson
John Joseph Bachir wrote: The output of running rdiff mentions that I should consider using the --carbonfile option. This option is not documented in the man page and I could not find any documentation online, only a commit comment from 2005 noting that this feature is flakey and is no longer