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Abtin Forouzandeh
Asked: 2011-05-19 18:23:34 +0800 CST

Why is linux renaming directories when copying over network?

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Running the command

sudo rsync -a -e ssh /home/blah user@server:/home/blah

rsync seems to be renaming directories (not sure if it is renaming files). For example, "M.I.A." is being converted to "MPTBTC~C". This also happens when copying over samba.

The target file system is ext4.

Update: This appears to only happen with directories that end with a period. A google search indicates this should only be a problem under windows, but I am syncing from linux (ext3) -> linux (ext4).

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1 Answers

  1. Try using the --iconv parameter of rsync to rule out encoding issues. For example:

    rsync -a -e ssh --iconv=utf8,iso88591 /home/blah user@server:/home/blah

    This will force rsync to use UTF-8 for local filenames and ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) for remote filenames, "translating" as needed.

    You can also try using the convmv utility (apt-get install convmv on Debian-based systems) to fix local encoding issues, although the filename you posted doesn't look like the kind of name convmv generally fixes.

    Also, please post links to the findings you mention.

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