Re: [rdiff-backup-users] still has charset problems

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Mar 16, 2008, at 9:35 AM, Farkas Levente wrote:

> hi,
> we use rdiff-backup-1.1.15 but while we backup cifs mounted win2003  
> server we regularly get such errors bellow. the reason some kind of  
> filename encoding. unfortunately we use some hungarian iso-8859-2  
> and some kind of koran chars in filename too;-( it'd be useful to  
> fix it somehow. on the other hand while it's not fixed at least it'd  
> be useful if rdiff-backup go further and skip those files and at  
> least the other part of the file system would be backed up. since  
> currently even if only one error occurred the whole backup process  
> quit which is not really robust behavior.

Hi Farkas,

Thanks for the bug report. I have made the CVS version of rdiff-backup  
robust to this kind of error. It's not clear to me whether the error  
is due to rdiff-backup, the pyxattr module, or samba/cifs, but at  
least it will no longer crash the backup.

Andrew