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List:       tarsnap-users
Subject:    Re: Can't translate pathname 'x/y' to UTF-8
From:       Colin Percival <cperciva () tarsnap ! com>
Date:       2011-11-30 18:42:00
Message-ID: 4ED678F8.3050001 () tarsnap ! com
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On 11/30/11 10:35, Chris Webb wrote:
> Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> writes:
>> Depending on how your system handles non-ASCII characters and locales Tarsnap
>> sometimes fails to convert characters to UTF-8.  This seems to be an issue on
>> Linux systems in particular.  Tarsnap is storing the path name "raw" rather
>> than as UTF-8 as a result.
> 
> Is there an easy way to force tarsnap to store all file names as literal
> byte-sequences and not attempt any character-set conversion on both backup
> and restore? It'd be a nice option if not.

I suspect that
# env LC_ALL=C tarsnap ...
will do that.

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Colin Percival
Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve
Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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