On Mon, 2007-06-18 13:59:59 +0200, Fredrik Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/18/07, Jan-Benedict Glaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-06-18 12:00:00 +0200, Fredrik Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > I am trying to use rsync to migrate homefolders from one server to > > > another. For this I use: > > > > > > >rsync --rsh="ssh -l root" -vaz beaucent.ling.umu.se:/export/home/ . > > > > > > Which works fine until I get to some files where the user has, > > > unfortunatelly, used a non-ascii character in the file name: > > > > > > --- snip -- > > > .... > > > rsync: recv_generator: mkdir > > > "/Volumes/Home_dirs/homes/students/kv04/kv04hen/inl?mningsuppgifter" > > > failed: Invalid argument (22) > > > rsync: stat > > > "/Volumes/Home_dirs/homes/students/kv04/kv04hen/inl?mningsuppgifter" > > > failed: Invalid argument (22) > > > rsync: recv_generator: mkdir > > > .... > > > <--- /snip ----> > > > > > > Is there a way to protect these filenames? > > > > Filenames are transferred as-is. The target filesystem doesn't allow > > for these characters. What filesystem type is it? > > > > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2790 mentions a patch, > > http://opencoder.net/iconv.diff , to recode filenames using iconv. > > > > Just search for "rsync iconv", you'll find some additional hints :) > > > Thank you for the reply. The server on which the files are stored is a > Debian Linux box. > The server I am migrating to is a Mac OS X server box. I have managed > to apply the iconv patch to the linux side of rsync, but it seems to > be more complicated on the mac.
What filesystem are you writing to? It's not a encoding problem per
se, but the *filesystem* refuses to create the file/directory.
Something like FAT or so?
MfG, JBG
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