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Date:      Fri, 20 Jun 2014 06:44:05 +0200
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        Noel <noeldude@gmail.com>
Cc:        Dale Scott <dalescott@shaw.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: samba, rsync --backup, and mangled instead of long filenames
Message-ID:  <20140620064405.07e6428b.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <53A38A96.2000903@gmail.com>
References:  <489659738.13024627.1403216558777.JavaMail.root@cds005> <53A38A96.2000903@gmail.com>

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On Thu, 19 Jun 2014 20:12:54 -0500, Noel wrote:
> Yes, the colons will break windows compatibility.

And make sure file names aren't too long, because long file names
are also not accepted in the "Windows" land of non-compatibility
and non-interoperability. ;-)



> The easy fix is don't use colons, as in date +%FT%H%M%S
> or maybe --suffix=`date +%FT%H%M%S`.dwg will work.

Or if you want a more "human readable" form containing non-restricted
characters: --suffix=`date "+%Y-%m-%d_%H.%M.%S"`.dwg could work.
This is a more "ISO date" like formatting.



-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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