Re: [Bacula-users] bacula won't backup files with apostrophes

Thanks for the ideas. I can't run the bacula client on the server, so I'm forced to do things this way (I know it isn't, and that's a huge understatement, the right way to do it). I'll try setting the iocharset option and see if that works. I should have thought of that. It doesn't make sense that Bacula would be causing this particular problem ;-)

Mark

On 13 April 2010 04:30, Craig Ringer <craig AT postnewspapers.com DOT au> wrote:

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.

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Craig Ringer

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