Hi,
once again thanks for the all the good feedback. As said, we keep the
complicated pattern matching for the description, allowing to escape colons.
Thanks, Eric
On 18/06/2020 05:20, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 6/17/20 1:15 AM, Eric L. Zolf wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> in the course of the review of PR
On Thursday, June 18, 2020 03:49:47 AM Mike Fleetwood wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 00:12, Leland Best wrote:
> > As a
> > concrete example, on a recent Linux box '/sys/bus/pci/devices' contains
> > symbolic links named like '000:00:00.0'. So, when I do a "full system
> > backup" I may well
On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 00:12, Leland Best wrote:
> As a
> concrete example, on a recent Linux box '/sys/bus/pci/devices' contains
> symbolic links named like '000:00:00.0'. So, when I do a "full system
> backup" I may well have filenames with colons.
Just checking that you know even for a full
On 6/17/20 1:15 AM, Eric L. Zolf wrote:
Hi,
in the course of the review of PR #404 we came to challenge the quite
complex quoting rules allowed when you backup to/from a remote location.
Our question is if anybody is relying on those (too) complex quoting
rules to make their backup work? Else
Eric, et al,
On Wed, 2020-06-17 at 08:26 +0100, Mike Fleetwood wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 07:16, Eric L. Zolf
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > in the course of the review of PR #404 we came to challenge the
> > quite
> > complex quoting rules allowed when you backup to/from a remote
> > location.
IPv6, what is this brand new technology? :-P
Seriously, good point, it might prevail before I retire... OK, we keep the
complicated code, not a big deal, it works...
Thanks, Eric
On June 17, 2020 11:16:59 AM UTC, Frank Crawford
wrote:
>On Wed, 2020-06-17 at 08:15 +0200, Eric L. Zolf wrote:
On Wed, 2020-06-17 at 08:15 +0200, Eric L. Zolf wrote:
> Hi,
...
> More details: if you backup to/from a remote site, the description is
> of
> the form `host::path` (e.g. `rdiff-backup /home
> myuser@myhost::/srv/backup/homebak`), and the current quoting allows
> to
> have the double colons (::)
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 07:16, Eric L. Zolf wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> in the course of the review of PR #404 we came to challenge the quite
> complex quoting rules allowed when you backup to/from a remote location.
>
> Our question is if anybody is relying on those (too) complex quoting
> rules to make
Hi,
in the course of the review of PR #404 we came to challenge the quite
complex quoting rules allowed when you backup to/from a remote location.
Our question is if anybody is relying on those (too) complex quoting
rules to make their backup work? Else it'll allow us to radically
simplify the
