On Jan 4, 2009, at 4:11 AM, Ryan wrote:
Under Windows XP with version 1.3.0, if I try to back up the
following file,
"C:\important stuff
\1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
"
I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "rdiff-backup", line 30, in <module>
File "rdiff_backup\Main.pyc", line 309, in error_check_Main
File "rdiff_backup\robust.pyc", line 77, in is_routine_fatal
NameError: global name 'e' is not defined
Hi Ryan,
Thanks for reporting this error. The error message is unhelpful
because of a typo. I am fixing that in the next release.
The next release will also allow rdiff-backup to ignore (some? all?)
of the errors caused by too-long filenames on Windows. It does not yet
backup such files. See this thread on the mailing list for the
explanation: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2008-10/msg00117.html
Basically, rdiff-backup will need to move to Unicode file handling and
prepend "\\\\?\\" to each Windows path in order to support long paths
& filenames ( > 255 characters, or so). That is something for the
development branch, possibly even for the next one.
Andrew
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