February 10, 20224 yr I've been using Rsync running on my backup Unraid server to pull files from my home Unraid server for an offsite backup. I mount the root SMB share on home server over a tailscale vpn with a script, a second script triggers a list of rsync operations to run, backing up the files, then unmounts the share. For the longest I thought this was a rock solid backup strategy then I realized some media files weren't backing up. After some trial and error, I was able to narrow it down to only media files with 'special' characters in the name that wouldn't be transferred. For example: it doesn't like the é in Pokémon Detective Pikachu but Pokemon Detective Pikachu is fine, it doesn't like the dots and ? in What if...? but if the folder/file is named What if it all works. I was hoping I could use Sonarr/Radarr to name these different to avoid it at the source but no luck. Then I was hoping something could be added to the rsync syntax since I found a few forums mention something about iconv but I've not been able to get that working either. Any help will be tremendously appreciated. If you know of another easy way to schedule routine backups, I'm all ears! Thanks in advance.
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