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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.
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 1.00
28,954 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.One thing i should have added is using the web interface the hidden directories do not appear and so far I have not found an option to view them. They are however there.
dtd41 wrote:
One thing i should have added is using the web interface the hidden directories do not appear and so far I have not found an option to view them. They are however there.
I'd like to make sure I understand exactly what you've found. If I get understand this correctly, you have
- backed up a share to another machine using a NAS backup job that uses rsync.
- then determined that hidden directories in that share were not backed up.
Is that correct? Or did you do this the other way around?
- back up a folder from another machine to the NAS using a backup job that uses rsync
- then determined that hidden directories in the source folder were not backed up to the share
Given you say they are GNOME configuration files, I'm assuming that you backed up another machine to the NAS.
Yes, rsync (on any linux platform) has some limitations on characters in file names unless you invoke specific options. Since those options are not ones that you want to use in every backup, it seems reasonable that Netgear does not invoke them.
To accomplish what you want to do, I believe you are going to have to initiate the rsync from the other system, invoking the appropriate options.
And, yes, the invisible files and folders are not visible in the GUI (and many other processes). That's what invisible means. Should Netgear add a global option to show them, much as Windows does? Maybe. You could put it in the idea exchange.
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