Re: Possible bug to report (loss of data)

[Tony Theodore <tonyt@logyst.com>]

On 6 July 2011 03:53, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
[snip...]
> So I did that:
>
>  tarsnap -c -f m2-ImagesMusic-11.06.30_083216 @@m2-ImagesMusic
>  tarsnap: Error reading archive m2-ImagesMusic: Pathname in pax header
>  can't be converted to current locale.

I suspect this error is an environment variable issue - check the
output of "locale" and maybe try something like:

LC_ALL="xx_XX.UTF-8" tarsnap -c -f ...

>                                       Total size  Compressed size
> All archives                          47451647043      36380066594
>  (unique data)                       34288390760      27769701053
> This archive                            432979189        386430105
> New data                                   105045            73442
> tarsnap: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
>
> -------        ---------       ---=---       ---------      --------
>
> And followed with the rest of the procedure .. deleting the original.

Why would you proceed after an error?

Cheers,

Tony