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Rsync Character set problems

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Mar 15, 202613969 views
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I'm attempting to backup a windows box to a Linux box (Ubuntu 9.10) using rsync on the Linux box, and I get "file has vanished" errors for filenames with unusual characters in the filenames. I get a similar error ("no such file or directory") if I use "cp" instead of rsync. The source in a share on…

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Fix for: Rsync Character set problems

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You're mounting the share from Windows on Linux, then using rsync to copy files locally. How do you mount the share? Windows should be storing filenames in UTF8 or UTF16, but you need to tell Linux that so it can mount the share correctly. Use a mou…

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