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Not backing up filenames with ANSI encoding #4753
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How is it supposed to interpret an unknown (or potentially multiple unknown) 8 bit character sets, e.g. for display purposes? |
Yes I can convert the names manually as I'm no longer using these old windows machines (some old files got backed up at some point and so happened to have the characters in them). The files themselves are stored on the filesystem of my NAS. It's only the special characters which don't show properly for display purposes (which is fine, there is no concrete way for it to tell what character set they are using, but the letters are universal). |
I'm not a C# developer, but I think this is incorrect. Character encoding in .NET (Microsoft) says that a Try getting a better message by watching with About --> Show log --> Live --> Warning. You might need to click the warning line. If it helps, your second (weirder-looking) error is a little easier to track in the code. It looks like it got a string that choked its query: duplicati/Duplicati/Library/Main/Operation/Backup/FileEnumerationProcess.cs Lines 248 to 263 in d716051
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This issue has been mentioned on Duplicati. There might be relevant details there: https://forum.duplicati.com/t/database-recration-not-really-starting/16948/36 |
Environment info
Description
Certain files which contain ANSI(not officially) or Windows-1252 character encoding fail to back up. These files were created using older versions of windows and don't show up on SMB, but are seen by linux over NFS.
This is the error received:
Steps to reproduce
Doesn't backup files
Backs up files regardless of filename encoding
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Debug log
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