I found a similar problem with my backups (Ugh. :-) A year ago I went on a trip and some combination of the humidity, the travel, and the 6 year old Thinkpad

I found a similar problem with my backups (Ugh. :-) A year ago I went on a trip and some combination of the humidity, the travel, and the 6 year old Thinkpad resulted in my laptop not booting. I had been experimenting with Borg to backup the system, and so I tried using Borg to restore the latest copy onto the new laptop. Turns out that I have a bunch of files on my laptop that have names with weird characters in them: rips of my CD collection. I couldn't find any combination of settings and environment and locale that would allow borg to recover or skip these files and recover everything else. Now, I had 2-3 other copies of the data (my pre-borg backups, the original SSD which was still readable, a few other rsync copies), so it wasn't a big deal. But, as always, test your recoveries!