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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu rdiff-backup using escape codes on vfat thumbdrive Post 302361175 by mikemc on Monday 12th of October 2009 03:34:09 PM

10-12-2009

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rdiff-backup using escape codes on vfat thumbdrive

I thought it may be nice to use rdiff-backup to backup my websites to a thumb drive. But all the capital letters are substituted with octal escape codes. How can I over come this?

There are no issues backing up to another ext3 drive.

The source drive is ext3 the thumb drive is vfat mounted as:

Code:

/dev/sdd1	/media/thumbdrive vfat rw,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=000 0 0

Example:
original - SOLMETRA-FlashUploader_102
becomes - ;083;079;076;077;069;084;082;065-;070lash;085ploader_102

rdiff-backup -V
rdiff-backup 1.2.7

rdiff-backup command:

Code:

rdiff-backup --exclude-symbolic-links --terminal-verbosity 5 --include-globbing-filelist /home/mike/.rdiff-backup/sys_files / /media/thumbdrive/www

Ubuntu version 2.6.28-15-generic #52-Ubuntu

---------- Post updated at 12:22 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:12 PM ----------

Never mind use --override-chars-to-quote

thanks anyway

---------- Post updated at 03:34 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:22 PM ----------

Still need help --override-chars-to-quote turns all directory and file names to octals. --override-chars-to-quote made it worse

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rdiffdir

RDIFFDIR(1)							   User Manuals 						       RDIFFDIR(1)

NAME

       rdiffdir - compute and apply signatures and diffs to directories

SYNOPSIS

       rdiffdir [options] sig[nature] basis_dir signature_file

       rdiffdir [options] delta signature_file new_dir delta_file

       rdiffdir [options] patch basis_dir delta_file

       rdiffdir [options] tar basis_dir tar_file

       If signature_file or delta_file are "-", the data will be read from stdin or written to stdout as appropriate.

DESCRIPTION

       rdiffdir is supposed to be like rdiff, but can operate on directories.  See rdiff(1) for more information.  The syntax is similar.

OPTIONS

       --write-sig-to sigfile
	      This  option is only used in delta and tar modes.  When specified, rdiffdir will write a signature of the directory it is processing
	      to sigfile.  The end result will be a delta and a new signature calculated over the same data.

       -z, --gzip-compress
	      Enable gzip compression and decompression of signature and delta files.

SELECTION OPTIONS

       In signature and delta modes, rdiffdir accepts duplicity-like selection options including --exclude,  --exclude-filelist-stdin,	etc.   See
       the duplicity(1) manual page for more information.

BUGS

       Hard links are currently unsupported (they will be treated as non-linked regular files).

       Bad signatures will be treated as empty instead of logging appropriate error message.

AUTHOR

       Ben Escoto <bescoto@stanford.edu>

SEE ALSO

       duplicity(1), python(1), rdiff(1), rdiff-backup(1).

Version 0.6.18							 February 29, 2012						       RDIFFDIR(1)