rsync with 8bit file names?

2014-09-11 Thread LuKreme
When trying to sync my TV folder to a mirror drive, episodes with non-ASCII characters in them cannot be processed by rsync. Anything I can do about this? For example, I get this: building file list ... file has vanished: /Volumes/TV/Raising Hope/Raising Hope - S04E01 - De?\#201ja Vu Man.mkv

Re: rsync with 8bit file names?

2014-09-11 Thread LuKreme
On 11 Sep 2014, at 06:36 , LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: $ rsync --version rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29 (I did install rsync 3.1.1, same results) -- U is for UNA who slipped down a drain V is for VICTOR squashed by a train -- Please use reply-all for most replies to

Re: rsync with 8bit file names?

2014-09-11 Thread Holger Hoffstätte
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 07:58:15 -0600, LuKreme wrote: On 11 Sep 2014, at 06:36 , LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: $ rsync --version rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29 (I did install rsync 3.1.1, same results) I have no problems rsync-ing files with German characters, but this is on

Re: rsync with 8bit file names?

2014-09-11 Thread Thomas Floeren
On 11 Sep 2014, at 17:05, Holger Hoffstätte holger.hoffstae...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 07:58:15 -0600, LuKreme wrote: On 11 Sep 2014, at 06:36 , LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: $ rsync --version rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29 (I did install rsync 3.1.1,

Re: rsync with 8bit file names?

2014-09-11 Thread Henri Shustak
Hello, Guessing the source drive is formatted HFS+ or HFS+J. What is the file system on the destination drive? I know that rsync is capable of correctly coping over file and folder names on Mac OS X which contain non-ASCII characters. Hence my question relating to the destination file system?

Re: rsync with 8bit file names?

2014-09-11 Thread Henri Shustak
Hello, Is the source Drobo a NAS or DAS unit? Also, I am guessing that the /Volumes/TV is the source for the rsync. Is it possible that the file has actually moved or been renamed? If the Drobo (hosted) volume is the source for the rsync command, then perhaps checking the file system format

Backup scripts - recycling old backup directories

2014-09-11 Thread Robert Bell
Folks, Kevin Korb wrote: Have you considered more advanced methods such as subvolume snapshots provided by ZFS and BTRFS? At work we were forced to abandon rsync - --link-dest because of the amount of time it takes to delete old backups when the data is primarily many millions of small files