Hi all,

 

So I am attempting to backup from Unraid to another hard drive (connected to my Unraid server).  Having read the tutorial here:

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Transferring_Files_Within_the_unRAID_Server

 

MC sounds like the best option.

 

Anyways, I have some files which have ü, ä etc... in the filename.  I guess this is UTF-8 or something... Anyway, MC is complaining and won't copy these files.  Is there a work around?  I've played around with the "encoding" menus and not had any luck.  I basically want a direct backup made. 

 

Going forward I would like to perform this backup more regularly, am I right in thinking that Rsync is a better option for file/directory comparisons?

 

Thanks.

If you browse your shares from a Windows box do you see the same characters? Or when you browse shares from the UnRAID GUI? Or is the issue just from MC? If it's MC you may need to change the translation setting. Before you connect to UnRAID look under Window / Translation and make sure it's to UTF-8 (which is not the default). I saved a session for UnRAID with this set so I don't need to remember.

 

I had a problem like this when trying to rsync to an external NTFS drive. I never did figure out exactly what the problem was, but I noticed that it only affected a few files that I had downloaded and so these were files that I did not create the names of. I had plenty of other files with "foreign" characters in their names that did not give me any problems. Since it was only a few files, I renamed them individually myself. I had to use wildcards to specify them while renaming them in order to avoid the characters that were giving problems.

If you browse your shares from a Windows box do you see the same characters? Or when you browse shares from the UnRAID GUI? Or is the issue just from MC? If it's MC you may need to change the translation setting. Before you connect to UnRAID look under Window / Translation and make sure it's to UTF-8 (which is not the default). I saved a session for UnRAID with this set so I don't need to remember.

 

From a Windows share everything shows up as one would except.  From a Putty session, which is set to UTF-8 BTW, if I do an 'ls', I get something like:

 

 

-rw-rw-rw- 1 root  root  25594719 2010-08-29 18:29 02\ Neighborhood\ #2\ (La\357ka).flac

-rw-rw-rw- 1 root  root  24212328 2010-08-29 18:29 03\ Une\ ann\351e\ sans\ lumi\350re.flac

 

 

I just tried rsync and it worked fine though, so I think I will carry on with that.

Thanks.