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Re: [BackupPC-users] gibberish when browsing backups

2010-02-04 13:37:42
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] gibberish when browsing backups
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:34:56 -0600
On 2/4/2010 7:43 AM, Chantal Rosmuller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use backupc for backuping some Linux servers and Windows laptops. I
> backup the laptops with samba. But when I browse the backups in the
> webinterface the directory and filenames are gibberish for one of the
> laptops, the other ones are fine.

It sounds like a character set issue, check 
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html for mentions of 
$Conf{ClientCharset} and the setting of unix charset in smb.conf.

>
> The Backuppc version is 2.1.2

That's pretty old.  I'd recommend updating just on general principles.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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