Rsync with non-english characters in filenames?

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Mon, 2007-06-18 12:00:00 +0200, Fredrik Karlsson <dargosch at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to use rsync to migrate homefolders from one server to
> another. For this I use:
> 
> >rsync --rsh="ssh -l root" -vaz beaucent.ling.umu.se:/export/home/ .
> 
> Which works fine until I get to some files where the user has,
> unfortunatelly, used a non-ascii character in the file name:
> 
> --- snip --
> ....
> rsync: recv_generator: mkdir
> "/Volumes/Home_dirs/homes/students/kv04/kv04hen/inl?mningsuppgifter"
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: stat 
> "/Volumes/Home_dirs/homes/students/kv04/kv04hen/inl?mningsuppgifter"
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: recv_generator: mkdir
> ....
> <--- /snip ---->
> 
> Is there a way to protect these filenames?

Filenames are transferred as-is. The target filesystem doesn't allow
for these characters. What filesystem type is it?

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2790 mentions a patch,
http://opencoder.net/iconv.diff ,  to recode filenames using iconv.

Just search for "rsync iconv", you'll find some additional hints :)

MfG, JBG

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