Jeff,
I suspect you'll get the same error if you use native rsync and tell it to
convert utf8 to utf8 (eg, add '--iconv=utf8,utf8' to your native rsync
command).
Since you don't need any conversion, you should set $Conf{ClientCharset} to
an empty string. That should cause rsync to no longer attempt any charset
conversion.
Craig
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 6:13 PM <backu...@kosowsky.org> wrote:
> Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users wrote at about 13:59:46 -0700 on Sunday,
> June 23, 2019:
> > The error you are getting is when rsync_bpc is trying to use iconv to
> > convert the client file name encoding to utf8 (which is the native
> format
> > that BackupPC on the server).
> >
> > What is $Conf{ClientCharset} set to for this host? If it is empty then
> > rsync_bpc should skip any charset conversion, so I assume it's not
> > empty.
> I have it set to UTF-8
> In my notes I have that this should be set to the output of the
> command 'locale charmap' which is UTF-8 on Ubuntu 18.04 -- but I
> can't remember where/why I determined that.
>
> > Next, it would appear that 'r'$'\351''ponse.doc' is not a valid encoded
> > name in that Charset.
>
> Well, when I type 'ls' on the server, it shows the file as:
> -rwx------ 1 user1 user1 28672 May 11 2005 'r'$'\351''ponse.doc'
>
> Indeed when I run:
> echo 'r'$'\351''ponse.doc' | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-8
> I get:
> riconv: illegal input sequence at position 1
> Not sure why this happens if I have UTF-8 as my 'locale charmap'
>
> Even so, shouldn't backuppc treat such an error more gracefully.
> For example,
> - If iconv gives an error, try without charset conversion (like
> BackupPC 3.x)
>
> At least this would be better than the current setup where lack of
> charset conversion causes the file to fail to be backed up at all -
> which in many ways is the worst thing possible...
>
> >
> > In BackupPC 3.x, the xfer methods didn't support any charset conversion
> > (you could, for example, have smbclient do it instead).
> >
> > Craig
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 8:56 PM <backu...@kosowsky.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Michael Stowe wrote at about 03:35:13 +0000 on Sunday, June 16, 2019:
> > > > On 2019-06-15 19:20, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
> > > > > I am running backuppc 4.3.0 on Linux Ubuntu 18.04
> > > > >
> > > > > I have a file copied over from an old Windows installation to my
> Linux
> > > > > server with name:
> > > > >
> > > > > -rwx------ 1 user1 user1 28672 May 11 2005
> 'r'$'\351''ponse.doc'
> > > > >
> > > > > This file gives an error under backuppc as follows:
> > > > > [sender] cannot convert filename:
> > > > > user1/docs/r\#351ponse.doc (Invalid or incomplete multibyte
> or
> > > > > wide character)
> > > > >
> > > > > Note that rsync itself has no trouble copying this file when I
> run
> > > > > rsync manually.
> > > > >
> > > > > Also, interestingly, this same file backed up fine on my old
> Fedora
> > > 12
> > > > > server
> > > > > running backuppc 3.x.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any ideas why backuppc is having trouble with this file?
> > > >
> > > > Almost definitely because the encoding is invalid relative to the
> > > > locale. The simplest thing to do is to rename the file so that
> it's a
> > > > valid filename.
> > >
> > > I could do that of course, but i would like to "fix" it if possible.
> > > If the native filesystem and 'rsync' are both able to deal with the
> > > file, it seems to me that backuppc should also be able to deal with
> > > it.
> > >
> > > Backup should be maximally tolerant so as to duplicate the files as
> > > permissively as possible...
> > >
> > >
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