On 13/04/10 02:05, Mark Coolen wrote:
> Hi;
> I'm backing up files from a Windows share connecting with cifs (samba)
> using autofs. I'm getting an error with files with apostrophes that the
> files doesn't exist and it lists the file path with a ? instead of the
> apostrophe.

First: Perhaps it'd be easier to just run a bacula-fd on the Windows 
system, bypassing this issue and giving you reliable backup of files 
that're open or being written to during the backup (using VSS) ?

If for some reason you can't do that, read on.

This sounds like a character encoding problem. Are they regular ASCII 
apostrophes, or are they 'curly' apostrophes (proper inverted commas) ?

If you create a file name with other unicode characters, is it visible 
or does it show up with "???" too? Try a filename like:

    fileåæïöû

( this email is in utf-8, so if you're using a brain-dead mail client 
that doesn't recognise the encoding declared in the header you might 
have to save it and open it as a utf-8 text file in a text editor to see 
the above ).

or:

    立法院上午

(random text from news.google.com.tw)


If it turns out to be an encoding issue, you'll need to set the 
`iocharset' mount option for mount.cifs correctly. See "man mount.cifs" 
and the output of the "locale" command.

If your local encoding isn't utf-8 you won't be able to reliably back up 
all possible files that may appear on a Windows system, as some 
characters on the remote system will lack local equivalents.


--
Craig Ringer

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