Hi, on one of our Windows servers there are pretty long directory names in a pretty deep nested structure. When Bacula FD tries to backup this structure, I got a lot of warnings like this:
11-Jun 01:50 <hostname>: Could not stat d:/<a long deeply nested path>/<longfilename>: ERR=Der Dateiname oder die Erweiterung ist zu lang. Translated to English this message says "the filename or the extension is too long". The backup protocol email says "Backup OK". When I examine the catalog, it seems like these files are backed up correctly. I tried to restore these, an got an "Backup ERROR" in the email. The detailed message looks like: 14-Jun 14:16 <hostname>: Restore-Job.2005-06-14_14.02.30 Error: .. \findlib\../../findlib/create_file.c:182 Could not create d:/<a long path>/<longfilename>: ERR=Der Dateiname oder die Erweiterung ist zu lang. The restore job reconstructs the path but not the files itself. What is the recommended way to deal with this? Please don't recommend to shorten the path names, since the management has a fixed schema how to name paths and files, and they won't change this :-( Should I skip the windows fd and use smbfs to mount the windows drive? Regards, Stefan ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
