Backup Central

On Apr 7, 2005, at 8:31 PM, Ben Escoto wrote:

The only issue I had was this one:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/index.php?
func=detailitem&item_id=3861

I think the right thing to do there is what Andrew Bressen
suggested---make the --override-chars-to-quote option documented, and
perhaps give it a better alias like --no-quoting that's short for
"--override-chars-to-quote ''",

Yes, that should be an adequate workaround.

and if it detects a Mac OS X volume on
each side, suggest that --no-quoting could be used.

It would be even better if rdiff-backup would automatically turn on the
no-quoting behavior if the case sensitivity of the source and
destination file systems were the same. This would solve the issue for
all file systems that exhibit this problem, not just Mac OS X's HFS+,
and it is what I was trying to accomplish with the patch.

Trevor

Trevor Harmon <vocaro < at > mac.com>
wrote the following on Mon, 11 Apr 2005 12:31:41 -0700

It would be even better if rdiff-backup would automatically turn on
the no-quoting behavior if the case sensitivity of the source and
destination file systems were the same. This would solve the issue
for all file systems that exhibit this problem, not just Mac OS X's
HFS+, and it is what I was trying to accomplish with the patch.

Well the problem with the automatic detection is it could lead to
problems (at least an rdiff-backup crash) if filesystems mounted
inside the source directory were case sensitive, or if later on a case
sensitive directory were backed up. These situations aren't
particularly pathological, so it seems by default rdiff-backup
shouldn't crash on them.


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Ben Escoto