I hope you at least give a warning so people will know the file was not backed up.
on Tuesday 01/06/2009 Andrew Ferguson([email protected]) wrote > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users > Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [email protected] _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
