Samba can do this very nicely but I see where are you going. I guess there is simply no easy way of doing this.
2009/1/8 Andrew Ferguson <[email protected]>: > > On Jan 8, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Gregy wrote: > >>> It looks like the ext3 filesystem does not support your Windows-1250 >>> files >>> natively. >> >> Yes that seems to be the problem or maybe rather then filesystem, >> system encoding is the problem. > > Yes. And there is nothing rdiff-backup can do about that without extensive > re-working. (Nor, should it really be expected to, I think.) > >>> Using rdiff-backup over ssh to or from Windows is the recommended, >>> and best, solution not only because it fixes the filenames, but because >>> it >>> restores the Windows metadata as well (which Linux/ext3 does not preserve >>> on >>> its own). >> >> But I am using rdiff-backup + plink (ssh). > > > Correct. The files are fixed on the *restore* ... no Unix software is > capable of implementing the Windows-1250 filenames on the Linux destination, > unless the OS + filesystem cooperate. And even if the OS + filesystem > cooperated for the filenames, the other Windows-only attributes could only > be fixed on the restore anyway. So, it's important to use rdiff-backup for > the restore unless 100% impossible. > > > 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
