Can't BkUp? Error: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: ordinal not in range (128)?

[gaikokuji...@gmail.com]

I was trying to back up a VM (a single VM if it matters) to a external drive that I had mounted in one of the appvms which I have done in 3.1 with no problems but here I got the following error:

Error: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: ordinal not in range (128)

not sure what to make of it?

[Andrew David Wong]

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Do you have non-ASCII characters anywhere (e.g., VM name, backup name, passphrase)?

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org
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[gaikokuji...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 6:56:35 PM UTC-4, Andrew David Wong wrote:
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> On 2016-10-04 17:26, gaikokuji...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I was trying to back up a VM (a single VM if it matters) to a external drive that I had mounted in one of the appvms which I have done in 3.1 with no problems but here I got the following error:
> >
> > Error: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: ordinal not in range (128)
> >
> > not sure what to make of it?
> >
>
> Do you have non-ASCII characters anywhere (e.g., VM name, backup name, passphrase)?
>

Does "-" count? Well regardless that seems to have been the problem as I had that in there, though I had used the exact same name before and it didn't make a diff? Anyway, no dash, no problem (it seems)?! Thanks!