Rsync locale? error

[Pooh_r]

I have a file server backing up to an ntfs usb drive on the pi using rsync. is basically works ok, except I get a few errors. These file have file names containing non standard english characters which throws an error.

Code: Select all

 failed: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character (84)

The file names appear correctly when viewing the file server from a number of different machines. How can I get these files to rsync correctly?

Thanks,

Andy

[Pooh_r]

I have been investigating further.....
The original file/folder names appear correctly when viewed on any machine. So the original file names are ok.

I can copy the files successfully using a windows laptop from the file server to a samba share on the pi external drive. The non standard characters appear correctly. So I know it's not the storage location is the problem. So it appears the issue is with the rsync process not able to handle the files with non alpha numeric characters correctly.

any thoughts on how to get the pi to rsync successfully?

Ta!

[fruit-uk]

It may help to post example filenames that are not working.

Different OS/FS support differing sets of alphanumeric chars for file/directory names.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compariso ... le_systems and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename