[volunteergrid2-l] some strange error

[Iantcho Vassilev]

Problem solved with fuse-convmvfs :)



Regards,
Iantcho



On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 15:50, Shawn Willden <shawn at willden.org> wrote:

> Heh.  Yeah, this is an area where I disagree with Brian Warner about the
> best way to handle backups.  His approach is to "fail fast" when he finds
> something that doesn't make sense.  My backup tool (which doesn't work well
> enough for me to suggest you use it) takes a different approach.  If a file
> name isn't valid per the system encoding, it stores the raw bytes of the
> file name and stores a flag that indicates that the name may not be
> correct.  Then the restore process has the information it needs to try to
> recover a usable name, or can defer the question to the user if need be.
>
> But that's not what tahoe backup does.
>
> What to do?  I don't know.  Can you write a script that fixes the encoding?
>
> Here's a bug report discussion that includes a trivial Perl script:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=396295
>
> If you're using WinSCP on the Windows side, Google turned up some
> discussion about fixes on that side, too.
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Iantcho Vassilev <ianchov at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> This is quite possible,
>> The dir in question (dir2) is scp copied from a Windows host..
>>
>> WHich means i have to find a way to fix the encoding each time a new
>> upload comes..???
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 14:11, Shawn Willden <shawn at willden.org> wrote:
>>
>>> My guess is that your directory name is encoded in a different character
>>> set than what your system is set to, so the directory name isn't a valid
>>> encoding in the system character set.
>>>
>>>  On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Iantcho Vassilev <ianchov at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am doing some backup with tahoe.
>>>> [ianchov at localhost bin]$ ./tahoe backup -vv /home/dir1/dir2/DESKTOP
>>>> kaval:backup
>>>>
>>>> WARNING: could not list directory '/home/dir1/dir2/DESKTOP' due to a
>>>> filename encoding error
>>>>  re-using old directory for '/home/dir1/dir2/DESKTOP
>>>>  0 files uploaded (0 reused), 0 files skipped, 0 directories created (1
>>>> reused), 1 directories skipped
>>>>  0 files checked, 0 directories checked
>>>>  backup done, elapsed time: 0:00:05
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What can cause such error?
>>>> I can `ls -l /home/dir1/dir2/`
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Iantcho
>>>>
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