Re: [rdiff-backup-users] OSX test

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Cornelius Jaeger <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:55:21 +0200
> 
> I just tested rdiff-backup under osx and when i backup one hd to
> another the text is scrambled.  ie the first capped letter of each
> file name turns, well it's not utf-8.  one i'm trying to achieve is
> to make a bootable copy of my main hd onto another internal drive.
> has anyone written such a script using rdiff-b?

Do restores work?  The scrambling sounds like rdiff-backup's
intentional behavior when backing up to a non-case-sensitive file
system.  Since you are backing up to the same type of file system you
can try

    --override-chars-to-quote ''

which tells it not to quote anything.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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