Hello all,<br><br>I don't know if this would really help, but I had some problems with latin characters too while syncing between a Windows NT fileserver (NTFS) and a linux box (ext3), and I have solved it using --iconv option, as follow :<br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">rsync -hxPHaz -e 'ssh' --stats --<span class="il">iconv</span>=CP1252 --delete --backup --backup-dir=$BKP_DIR $SRC $DEST</span><br>(-h: human readable, -x: don't cross filesystems, -P: --partial --progress, -H: hard links, -a: archive, ie. own/group/mod/time/..., -z: compression)<br>
<br>Greg<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:05 AM, joop g <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jjge@xs4all.nl">jjge@xs4all.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">On Friday 13 April 2012 21:22:42 <a href="mailto:josephj@main.nc.us" target="_blank">josephj@main.nc.us</a> wrote:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> Since no one has replied yet, I have one idea that *might* point to part</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> of your problem. I've never had to deal with locale issues, so I have no</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> idea about that.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> You have directories and file names with blanks in them. In general, this</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> causes a lot of trouble for a lot of programs. I'm not sure how rsync</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> handles them.</p>
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</div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">It is very kind of you to at least give it a try, but I am quite sure that spaces are not the problem. In fact, I have been experimenting further, and the situation is even more complicated.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">First of all, I have to apologize to the list for my first question, regarding </p><div class="im">
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > WARNING: Couldn't set locale to 'nl_NL.iso-9959-1' thus some file names</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > may not</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > be correct or visible. Please see the potential solution at</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > <a href="http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#locale" target="_blank">http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#locale</a></p>
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</div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">I could try, of course, but it was clearly off-list.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Before I am to present my more complex problem, I might give some explanation. I am managing the computer systems for a small regional museum, and we do a lot of digitalization (pictures, movies), and of course regular backups, for which I use rsync. And we have three backup disks which are regularly changed. We are mostly running XP workstations, with a SAMBA server, but the backup disks are NTFS.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Currently I am replacing the old 1 TB backups (which are nearly full) with 2 TB disks. And then I saw a problem re-occeur which I thought I had solved before. Not only that, but I also saw it "vanish" this time, rather than being solved, as I thought before.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Take the example I gave already.</p><div class="im">
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat "/mnt/tmp/backup/museum/adlib/adlib</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > documenten voor/catalogus objecten in eigen bezit/artikelen,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > algemeen/8467 wehrpa\#303\#237.doc": Invalid or incomplete multibyte or</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > wide character (84)</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > "/mnt/tmp/backup/museum/documenten/bestuur/archief, niet</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > geschoond/publiciteit/idee\#343\#253n website.doc": Invalid or incomplete</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > multibyte or wide character (84)</p>
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</div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Behind the backslashes you see a numerical code, which is clearly indicating a locality problem; in fact the file names are "8467 wehrpaß.doc" (with a German "sz" in it), and "ideeën website.doc", with a Dutch "e-trema" in it. Neither of these is a problem in Linux, Samba, Windows XP, or NTFS.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">So I am pretty sure it _is_ a locality problem, and I had it before, when I installed the 1TB disks, and I _thought_ I had solved it.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">But now I also discovered that the problem vanishes by itself, when you re-run rsync. If you have this "ideeën" file, it is rejected, and it is _not_ saved, but if you run rsync again, the message does not appear, and the file _is_ saved.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">This must have led me astray the previous time in thinking that I had solved the problem, and it may also be responsible for some of the options I chose and which apparently were succesful.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">So my question is now: how come a file is rejected the first time around, and simply accepted the second time, _without_ any change?</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Well, as a system manager I can now be happy, for the problem goes away, but I am still interested in the mechanism behind it. My C knowledge is a bit rusty, so I am not really planning to go through the source code myself :-)</p>
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