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Comment on MySQL: Converting an incorrect latin1 column to utf8 by Mark

Mark — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:50:33 +0000

I’m working on a related problem that your article and PHP do not seem to solve.

I get this error when working with some of my data:

Warning (Code 1366): Incorrect string value: ‘\xFCrttem…’ for column ‘name’ at row 1

Here’s an example:

select unhex(’426164656E2D57FC727474656D626572672C2044452C204445′) with_fc
, unhex(’426164656E2D57C3BC727474656D626572672C2044452C204445′) with_c3bc;

They could both evaluate to “Baden-Württemberg, DE, DE”, but only the second option works with hex and utf8.

It may be that I have to convert from latin1 to utf16 and then to utf8.

Comment on MySQL: TEXT vs. VARCHAR Performance by xsign

xsign — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:51:07 +0000

Perfect! Helped a lot!

Comment on MySQL: Converting an incorrect latin1 column to utf8 by keeley

keeley — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:32:59 +0000

Thank you so much for the detailed explanation of the issue and the helpful script. We ran into this issue converting a very large EE 1.x database for use in EE 2.x and this did the trick.

Comment on MySQL: Converting an incorrect latin1 column to utf8 by sleep-o-matic

sleep-o-matic — Tue, 08 May 2012 18:59:45 +0000

Thank you so much … this saved me loads of time
very much appreciated.

Comment on Backing up Windows computers to a Synology NAS via SSH and rsync by Nic

Nic — Mon, 07 May 2012 19:55:23 +0000

I agree completely, and I’ve been pondering what the solution would be. It’d be nice to have the clients have their own keys that they could use to mount a filesystem (or a .TC filesystem file) before the rsync, and then unmount afterward. There’s always a trade-off between full-automation and security. Anything that is fully automated still has the possibility of being infiltrated and then that system could be used to infiltrate further.

Let me know if you come up with anything!

Comment on Backing up Windows computers to a Synology NAS via SSH and rsync by Steve Upp

Steve Upp — Mon, 07 May 2012 11:46:04 +0000

Nic,

Great post!

One potential issue with this approach is that the backup data is stored in the clear on the DS. It would be interesting to consider ways to encrypt the backup with keys known to the client only.

.. WebDAV with a TrueCrypt virtual disk .. Not sure what performance would be like.

Steve

Comment on Backing up Windows computers to a Synology NAS via SSH and rsync by Nic

Nic — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 03:27:05 +0000

Hi Sebastien,

Yes, you should be able to simply enable rsync on the Synology and open the appropriate port on your firewall/router to forward it. This method uses the same thing, however, it encrypts the transmission over SSH.

Comment on Backing up Windows computers to a Synology NAS via SSH and rsync by depannage informatique

depannage informatique — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 19:08:43 +0000

it is a bit hard for non experienced user to do this !

is it possible to save ours computers to a remote DS in another way ?

rsync, webdav ? or anything else ?

thanks for sharing !

Sebastien

Comment on MySQL: Converting an incorrect latin1 column to utf8 by Jon Gjengset

Jon Gjengset — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:31:33 +0000

Great writeup! Thanks!

Comment on MySQL: Converting an incorrect latin1 column to utf8 by Rafis

Rafis — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:33:03 +0000

Solved. Seems the problem was not in charset or collation! It was in size of field TEXT = 64Kb, MEDIUMTEXT = 16Mb, truncating to 64Kb was breaking last character.