Hi - I have implemented an rsync script that runs on a Leopard OS X system and backup the local host itself, plus 2 remote machines - another Leopard machine and a Win XP laptop. The remote backups are performed by connection to an rsync daemon. I'm using rsync 3.0.4 with a few extension for the Mac OS X side. When doing the backup of the XP box I see these error messages: 28/11/2008 15:47:16 mdworker[1065] (Warning) Import: Bad path:/Volumes/ backup_hd/Backups/xxxxxxxx-4.local/Profiles/XXXXXXXX/daily.0/Start Menu/current/$my/Sudtirol/S?dtirol.xls rsync: readlink_stat("/XXXXXXXX/My Documents/Work/archive/projects/ LFAB/LFAB SpeechDial & Help Desk/on LL/Tuning/ tuning-070319/070201T2213-def-AUTOTRANS.SpeechDial-lfab- SE151.SpeechDM_FullName.log.SpeechDM_FullName/AUTOTRANS.SpeechDial- lfab-SE151.SpeechDM_FullName.log.SpeechDM_FullName.oog" (in Profiles)) failed: File name too long (91) I assume the file name length limit is coming from the OS X system but how can I ensure that special characters like German umlauts, are transferred correctly? Cheers Michael -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed