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Someone in my network accidentally made a Windows "Shortcut" to the A: drive
on their machine on a network drive, and that file name is something like "3 1/2 Floppy (A)"
except the "1/2" is some f***ing Windows-encoded character. So it gets backed
up okay because it gets escaped, but when I had to do an emergency
full-restore today to said network drive, it bombs because the OS doesn't
know how to write that "1/2" character. The network drive is on a Mac OS X
Server.

- - -
Renaming divisions/Connections/rdiff-backup.tmp.8373 to divisions/Connections/Shortcut to 3? Floppy (A).lnk
[snip]
File "/sw/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line
226, in rename
else: rp_source.conn.os.rename(rp_source.path, rp_dest.path)
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument
- - -

What do I do?

-Paul

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Paul Smith <paul < at > cnt.org>
wrote the following on Fri, 5 Aug 2005 17:14:37 -0500

Someone in my network accidentally made a Windows "Shortcut" to the
A: drive on their machine on a network drive, and that file name is
something like "3 1/2 Floppy (A)" except the "1/2" is some f***ing
Windows-encoded character. So it gets backed up okay because it gets
escaped, but when I had to do an emergency full-restore today to
said network drive, it bombs because the OS doesn't know how to
write that "1/2" character. The network drive is on a Mac OS X
Server.

Possible quick-fix: just --exclude that file and don't restore it.
There are some other quoting problems people have reported, I'll look
at those all at once later.


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Ben Escoto

Paul Smith <paul < at > cnt.org>
wrote the following on Fri, 5 Aug 2005 17:14:37 -0500

Someone in my network accidentally made a Windows "Shortcut" to the
A: drive on their machine on a network drive, and that file name is
something like "3 1/2 Floppy (A)" except the "1/2" is some f***ing
Windows-encoded character. So it gets backed up okay because it gets
escaped, but when I had to do an emergency full-restore today to
said network drive, it bombs because the OS doesn't know how to
write that "1/2" character. The network drive is on a Mac OS X
Server.

- - -
Renaming divisions/Connections/rdiff-backup.tmp.8373 to divisions/Connections/Shortcut to 3? Floppy (A).lnk
[snip]
File "/sw/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line
226, in rename
else: rp_source.conn.os.rename(rp_source.path, rp_dest.path)
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument

So the source directory, as well as the directory you are restoring
to, is on windows (NTFS)? And the destination directory (where things
are backed up to) is a Mac OS X filesystem (UFS?)?

If the source filesystem is the same as the filesystem you're
restoring to, why can't whatever characters are in that shortcut be
created on that filesystem, just as they were created originally?


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Ben Escoto