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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:33:51 -0800 (PST)
From: chaos215bar2 <chaos215bar2@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: rsync - convert illegal characters in paths
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I'm attempting to use rsync to backup from Linux to Windows. This is mostly
working, except that paths with characters that are not legal in NTFS (< > :
" / \ | ? *) are not copied because rsync fails to create files and
directories with names containing these characters.

I've looked at the --iconv option, but I'm not aware of a character set that
includes only valid NTFS characters, and I've run into some issues with
unicode characters when I use --iconv. (Currently, filenames with unicode
characters are preserved perfectly, thanks to UTF-8 Cygwin.)

Is there a way to get rsync to convert these illegal characters? I'm more
interested in just getting all my data copied than necessarily preserving
all filenames upon restore, though having a conversion that goes both ways
would be preferable.

Thanks.
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