Re: [BackupPC-users] Untar issue on windows

[Filipe <na...@gm...>]

It seems that if I use WinRAR the files are shown correctly.

with 7-zip it is not.

And winrar opens the .tar.gz at once, 7zip has to extract the gz, then 
the tar.


do I have to use winrar, or is there a fix for 7zip?


Craig Barratt escreveu:
> Filipe writes:
>
>   
>> I started using the archive function now.
>> The hosts that I archived have a lot of folders/files with special 
>> characters like "á ã ç ô ó" and if I extract the tar.gz or tar.bz2 on 
>> windows it becomes all messed up...
>> An example is a folder called "Cópia" becomes "C¾pia"
>> I was about to give up on this function, and then i remember to tar xvzf 
>> the archive in linux. then, from the samba share when i extracted it, i 
>> can see the names correctly..
>>
>> Is there any explanation for this ? can I fix it so I could extract it 
>> correctly on windows?
>> I use 7-zip on windows.
>> And I have a lot of trouble to put char codes working correctly on the 
>> backuppc machine.
>>     
>
> Are you using 3.0.0beta?  In 3.x, $Conf{ClientCharset} specifies the
> client's charset encoding.  BackupPC_tarCreate converts all the file
> names back to that encoding, plus it supports a "-e charset" option
> that allows you to override the charset encoding.
>
> Craig
>
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