Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Recovery to Linux from Windows

[Stefan Lisowski]

On 6/4/2013 6:05 PM, Dave Kempe wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Stefan Lisowski"<address@hidden>
> > To: address@hidden
> > Sent: Wednesday, 5 June, 2013 3:35:32 AM
> > Subject: [rdiff-backup-users] Recovery to Linux from Windows
> >
> > Our Linux box died, so now we're restoring from a rdiff-backup
> > repository on a Windows box running Cygwin. Fine for lowercase files.
> > But not fine for uppercase escaped files. I see lots of posts about why
> > capital letters are escaped and from the FAQ I see "Upon restore (from
> > the Mac backup server to the Linux system), the filenames are unquoted
> > and you will get "MyFile" back."
> Why wouldn't you just copy the files back? If you need the entire latest 
> repository and not an increment, just copy the files back.
>
> Dave
I should have replied-all, but as I'm new to this list, I only replied 
to Dave. Anyway this was my reply. This is still an outstanding issue 
for me... I can't believe rdiff-backup does this cryptic naming and then 
there's no way to recover the files back to normal...?
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How?

I did copy the files from Windows to Linux with scp, but they look like 
this:

# ls \;080roducts/
;065;084;067ontent;084ypes                 
;067ache;083etup                      ;080luggable;065uth;083ervice
;065;084;082eference;066rowser;087idget    
;068;067;087orkflow                   ;080lugin;082egistry
;065rchetypes                              
;069xtended;080ath;073ndex            
;080olicy;072;084;084;080;067ache;077anager
;067;077;070;065ction;073cons              
;069xternal;069ditor                  ;080ortal;084ransforms
;067;077;070;067alendar                    
;071eneric;083etup                    ;080ython;070ield
;067;077;070;067ore                        
;071roup;085ser;070older              ;082;069;065;068;077;069.txt

Where they should look like words from the English language instead. So 
with improper names, they aren't useful to me. I need to get back the 
original filenames, not the ones from the Windows OS where Foo and foo 
are the same file, so coming from Unix the caps get escaped and I have 
;070oo instead of Foo.

- Stefan