On Friday 24 February 2006 19:29, Dan Langille wrote: > On 24 Feb 2006 at 13:19, Tom Cruickshank wrote: > > I've been reading and testing out bacula as a backup solution and I like > > it quite abit. One thing which worries me however is That Paths and > > filenames longer then 260 characters on Win32 systems are not supported. > > Any idea when that will be supported? Please let me know. Thanks. > > Do you have such systems? > > I'm also wondering if that's a win32 restrictions imposed upon us, or > if it's something in our client. I found the answer here: > > http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Current_State_Bacula.html > > "Path and filenames longer than 260 characters on Win32 systems are > not supported. They will be backed up, but they cannot be restored. > By using the Portable=yes directive in your FileSet, files with long > names can be restored to Unix and Linux systems. Long filenames for > Win32 will be implemented in a later version." > > later on the same page: > > "On Win32 machines filenames are limited by the non-Unicode Windows > API that we use to 260 characters. This is planned to be corrected in > a future version by switching to the Unicode API." > > Anyone know more?
What do you want to know? If you want to understand the Microsoft "bug" simply try to cd or use any shell command to access a directory/file that has a total path longer than 260 characters. Microsoft not really caring about their users removed this 260 by restriction, but only implemented in the Unicode API (a sort of add on kludge API to solve their problem of code pages). Of course they didn't bother to implement this for the non-Unicode API or even for their own utilities. Thorsten is planning to work on fixing this in our FD in the near future -- perhaps even before the release of the next version (June - July timeframe I hope). Regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
