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Re: Can't translate pathname

To: Michael Stevens <mstevens@etla.org>
Subject: Re: Can't translate pathname
From: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:24:51 -0800
Cc: tarsnap-users@tarsnap.com
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Michael Stevens wrote:
> Has anyone seen anything like this?
> 
> tarsnap: /usr/share/doc/console-tools/examples/♪♬: Can't translate pathname '/usr/share/doc/console-tools/examples/♪♬' to UTF-8

Yep.  You're running Linux, right?  There is some weirdness with locales there
which I haven't been able to straighten out yet.

> I've just started getting it after installing tarsnap on a new machine. Does it mean it refused to do the backup or is it just a warning?

It's just a warning -- the file was archived, but it's possible that when you
extract it the file name (or at least, the non-ASCII characters in the file
name) will come out mangled.

-- 
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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