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[Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 5:20 AM, jdd<jdd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Carlos E. R. a écrit :
>
> > Maybe the original uses utf-8, and ntfs can't handle it. You'd need
> > conversion, somehow... :-?
>
> no. I have regularly such problems when ripping audio cd's (titles
> from cddb) at somepoint the code is not properly managed (but I don't
> know where). I already fixed manually some, but there the backup disk
> (ext3) is good, however I would like to keep the new one with ntfs
> because it's more portable to Windows machine, just in case of emergency.
>
> > Have a look at mtools; I know mcopy does the conversion, but I don't
> > think it handles ntfs. Maybe one of those tools can be used to convert
> > the names, though.
>
> I will take a look
>
> thanks
> jdd

Jdd,

It's not made for the task, but I bet rdiff-backup can be made to work for you.

Is is sort of a rsync on steroids.  Most of its features you don't
need, but one thing it does is rename problematic files on backup. And
the puts them back to normal on restore, or so I believe.

HTH
Greg
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