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ReadyNAS RN214
The system can not backup files with special characters in the name. I have files with the following chars : ?"= It is a problem with the system or the embedded linux being used.
Backup to/from where, using what backup method?
rsync over a LAN. The NAS was smb mounted. the rsync summary:
sent 59,173,408,422 bytes received 578,797 bytes 7,480,435.78 bytes/sec
total size is 59,389,706,157 speedup is 1.0028,954 files. Example of files not transfered:
.local/share/gvfs-metadata/sftp:host=mneme-86f18778.log
.local/share/gvfs-metadata/sftp:host=thor,user=chris
these are gnome configuration files. Anyway a backup should do all files
dtd41 wrote:
.local/share/gvfs-metadata/sftp:host=mneme-86f18778.log
.local/share/gvfs-metadata/sftp:host=thor,user=chris
.local would be hidden, correct?
Were there any files in.local that were copied?
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All files were copied except the ones with the special characters. I am using XFCE. The backup was made with rsync. Below here is a partial directory list with the NAS mounted on /mnt.
artemis:/mnt/doug> find . -type d -name ".*" -maxdepth 1
./.config ./.dbus ./.fltk ./.gimp-2.8 ./.gnome2 ./.gnupg ./.gstreamer-0.10 ./.gvfs ./.hplip
./.idlerc ./.kc ./.local ./.notecase ./.pki ./.purple ./.ssh ./.ssh1 ./.vnc ./.xchat2
as you see dirs and files with leading "."s are included as they should be. The only files not copied were the ones with the special characters. As I thought I said files with these characters can not be added by any method.
First I appreciate all the help, and thoughts. I made the satement of the problem, at least with the unit I have, too complex. If a file name contains a "?" or an "=" it will not be stored on the NAS214. In my testing it does not matter if I use the web interface or mount it via smb or ssh. Files with these characters will not be stored. I have submitted this as a PR. judging from the response from Netgear and the fact that I seem to be the only one to have hit this, I do not expect anything to change. I am considering this to be a close issue.
I just tested with ssh and SMB. The Equal sign is a valid character in both Linux and SMB/Windows file names. I created files contining it, including as the first charater (which is sometimes a special limitation). I don't know why you would have an issue with that.
A question mark, however, is a wild card. If escaped or in single quotes, Linux does allow it, but it can be problematic in many usages. It is not an allowed character in SMB/Windows. Windows will display something really wild for a file with a question mark in the name created via SSH.
All I can say is that whoever created something that uses those file names either wasn't thinking or, more likely, wanted to make messing around with them very difficult.
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