Re: [BackupPC-users] "fatal erreor during transfer" : \n in filename ?

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

AUF - J r me Santini writes:

> I just installed backuppc today. All went fine until I added my nfs 
> fileserver to the list of host to be backuped
> 
> When I try to backup this server, it fail each time on the same user 
> directory. attached are the end of the xferlog I get, with the error, 
> and an "ls" of the user directory. Note that some of the file have some 
> \n and somtimes even some \n\n : could this be the source of the problem 
> ? what should I do ?

Yes - it looks like the newline in the file name is the problem.
The File::RsyncP code is meant to be robust to this, but it looks
like the communication between the two rsync processes doesn't
protect new lines.

Craig