Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Filenames with semicolon ; changed?

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Jan 11, 2009, at 5:14 AM, Ryan wrote:
> 2) What is rdiff-backup --verify x:\dest
> supposed to do?  When I run it, I get these errors for many files in  
> my old bookmarks directory:
>
> Warning: Cannot find SHA1 digest for file BIG/URL/2004 2/BBS  
> Documentary Trailers.url,
> perhaps because this feature was added in v1.1.1

Hmm, I wonder if those files are empty? Can you check if they are size  
0 bytes? Empty files don't give a message like that on Unix, but  
Windows is a little different...

Are they Firefox URLs? or IE? (I'd like to recreate the problem.)

> I've never used an older version of rdiff-backup.  The files in  
> question were copied over.

Did you copy them over to the repository by hand? Or did rdiff-backup  
copy them?

> These error messages only show up on the console when I do --verify,  
> I don't see them mentioned in any logs.

Correct. The SHA1 digests exist to verify the written file, both  
during a restore (when it would complain if the digest didn't match,  
or didn't exist), and during a --verify operation (which verifies the  
repository against the digests).


Andrew