In locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 (e.g.) file names with non-ascii characters are reported by tar as octal escapes.
Those file names are reported as errors when comparing the file list with the archive toc.
The sed expression that aims at replacing octal escapes with question marks fails because it needs four backslashes where it has only two. The reason is that the string is first assigned to a...
2009-02-26 07:53:03 UTC in backup2l - low maintenance backup tool
