Re: File names lose special characters in names when moved to Sol10

From: Joerg Schilling (js_at_cs.tu-berlin.de)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: 30 Jan 2005 12:50:44 GMT

In article <41FC0E07.2050500@prodigy.net>, CJT <abujlehc@prodigy.net> wrote:

>> Pax was not designed to make backups. It only works if the directory tree that
>> is archived by pax uses the same locale as the person who runs pax.
>>
>> For backups better use star
>>
>> ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha
>>
>> http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php
>>
>>
>I think it _is_ a locale problem. But I was using pax in -rw mode, so
>the person creating the "archive" was, by definition, the same as the
>one doing the extraction. However, I believe it is true that the user
>who created the affected file names was operating under a different
>locale.
>
>I did not experience this under Solaris 9.

Pax in Solaris 9 is not POSIX.1-2001 compliant so it does not support
transcoding.

Unless you use a pax that implements a recelty added optional POSIX feature,
you definitely cannot use pax for backup purposes.

Use star -copy. Except for the fact that Sun's pax already supports
the not really used extended attributes from Solaris, star is better in any
case. 

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