Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Long filename errors?

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Jan 26, 2009, at 1:45 PM, Thanos Diacakis wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am backing up from OSX to XP over ssh and I am getting these two  
> errors:
>
> UpdateError Documents/Family/Salamina/Aγωγές χαμένες- 
> κατάσταση αρχείων/.svn/prop-base/rdiff-backup.tmp. 
> 3 [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'z:\\LuciferBackup/rdiff- 
> backup-data/increments/Documents/Family/Salamina/A\xce\xb3\xcf 
> \x89\xce\xb3\xce\xb5\xcc\x81\xcf\x82 \xcf\x87\xce\xb1\xce\xbc\xce 
> \xb5\xcc\x81\xce\xbd\xce\xb5\xcf\x82-\xce\xba\xce\xb1\xcf\x84\xce 
> \xb1\xcc\x81\xcf\x83\xcf\x84\xce\xb1\xcf\x83\xce\xb7 \xce\xb1\xcf 
> \x81\xcf\x87\xce\xb5\xce\xb9\xcc\x81\xcf\x89\xce\xbd/.svn/prop-base/ 
> \xce\x95\xcf\x80\xce\xb1\xce\xbc.+\xce\x95\xce\xbb\xce\xb5\xcf 
> \x85\xce\xb8.\xce\xa0\xce\xb5\xcf\x84\xcf\x81\xce\xbf\xcf\x80\xce\xbf 
> \xcf\x85\xce\xbb\xce\xb5\xcc\x81\xce\xb1\xcf\x82.xlsx.svn-base. 
> 2009-01-26T01;05815;05804-08;05800.missing'
>
> UpdateError Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/ 
> #SharedObjects/285UJ56S/entertainment.mtvnservices.com/[[IMPORT]]/ 
> media.mtvnservices.com/player/release/rdiff-backup.tmp.369 [Errno 2]  
> No such file or directory: 'z:\\LuciferBackup/rdiff-backup-data/ 
> increments/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/ 
> #SharedObjects/285UJ56S/entertainment.mtvnservices.com/[[IMPORT]]/ 
> media.mtvnservices.com/player/release/MetadataHistoryProxy.sol. 
> 2009-01-26T01;05815;05804-08;05800.snapshot.gz'
>
> Looks like the filenames may be too long, but should that not give a  
> different error?


Thanos,

UpdateError is something of a generic non-fatal error that occurs  
during updating. Getting Windows to support filenames longer than ~250  
characters involves moving the rdiff-backup source to use Unicode for  
all strings and then some additional magic as described here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx

See the mailing list archives for some more discussion.


regards,
Andrew