207 - Was muss ich tun damit unter Unix/Linux Files mit Umlauten im Namen richtig gebackupt werden können?
The SP Client supports umlauts in directory and file names only in certain character encodings.
If you want to use umlauts in directory and file names, you may have to change some configuration settings of your operating system.
You have to make sure that the directory and file names are created in the character encoding ISO-8859-15 or UTF-8.
To do this, you must set at least the environment variables LANG and LC_CTYPE to the value de_DE@euro for ISO-8859-15 and to the value de_DE.UTF-8 for UTF8.
If you use File Sharing via Samba or similar, you must also set the character encoding there using the appropriate configuration mechanisms to restrict the character encoding to ISO-8859-15 or UTF-8.
Please note that these two character encodings are not compatible with each other. Therefore the configuration of all Linux installations must be adapted to a character encoding as described above if you want to use umlauts in file and directory names.
If you create directory and file names with umlauts in a character encoding other than ISO-8859-15 or UTF-8, it may happen that:
- the corresponding files or directories are not backed up,
- the entire backup aborts with an error message.
In the worst case, this can mean that you have no backup of your system.