Re: Great tool (hdup)! One stumbling block though...

[On 13 Jun, @23:38, Carter wrote in "[hdup-user] Great tool (hdup)! ..."]
>    Hi Miek,
> 
>    I just downloaded and have been testing hdup.  What a great idea!
>    I have hit one stumbling block though, that I believe is an issue with
>    tar, and I was wondering if perhaps you knew a way to solve this.
> 
>    I have two HD's in my machine.  One has Linux and the other Windows
>    XP.  I use the former OS and my wife the latter.  In addition to various
>    directories under Linux, I want to back up the following directory under
>    windows :
> 
>    /mnt/windows/Documents and Settings
> 
>    All of our documents and email and account settings apparently are
>    stored under here.  The kicker is that hdup (and I think the issue is
>    really with tar) doesn't like the following listing :
> 
>    dir = /etc, /home, /mnt/windows/Documents\ and\ Settings
> 
>    The issue is the spaces in the name, of course.  I tried surrounding
>    the directory name with ' and " but no luck.  The error message I
>    receive is as follows :
> 
>    %> hdup monthly <hostname>
>    hdup: <hostname>: STARTING BACKUP.
>    /bin/tar: /mnt/windows/Documents\\ and\\ Settings: Warning: Cannot stat:
>    No such file or directory
>    /bin/tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
>    /bin/tar: /mnt/windows/Documents\\ and\\ Settings: Warning: Cannot stat:
>    No such file or directory

hmmm, hdup itself doesn't do any backquoting or escaping of characters. How 
does your <backupdir>/<host>/etc/filelist look like? If it is identical to
what you typed in the hdup's config it is indeed a tar issue.

Isn't it possible to use the windoze name Document~1 (and mounting it as fat
instead of vfat)? And without any escaping in the name, does that work?

grtz Miek