Hello, We have three servers here at my office, 2 suse and 1 redhat. We use CPIO to backup on all servers. The servers are used as Windows samba share drives for our admin, legal and accounts people - only problem is trying to drum it into them about spaces in filenames when they have been used to Windows for so long. Recently one of the servers crashed and we needed to reload, we couldn't reload however because CPIO doesn't recognise spaces in filenames and mistakes them for a new directory and therefore places a \ on the end of the line. We also use BRU backup on one server and this does the same. Can anybody suggest how I can get CPIO/Bru to backup nightly and allow us to restore filenames with spaces in the filenames? Thankyou Damian Buckley
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From: "Damian Buckley"
Hello, We have three servers here at my office, 2 suse and 1 redhat. We use CPIO to backup on all servers. The servers are used as Windows samba share drives for our admin, legal and accounts people - only problem is trying to drum it into them about spaces in filenames when they have been used to Windows for so long. Recently one of the servers crashed and we needed to reload, we couldn't reload however because CPIO doesn't recognise spaces in filenames and mistakes them for a new directory and therefore places a \ on the end of the line. We also use BRU backup on one server and this does the same.
Can anybody suggest how I can get CPIO/Bru to backup nightly and allow us to restore filenames with spaces in the filenames?
Thankyou
Damian Buckley
I have a machine providing 1000's of files some with spaces and use backupedge for backup and restore without problems. You may want to look into using it. Ken
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 18:11, Damian Buckley wrote:
Can anybody suggest how I can get CPIO/Bru to backup nightly and allow us to restore filenames with spaces in the filenames?
I have been using BRU for a number of years with samba shares and definately never had any problem restoring files and directories with spaces in them. The only thing I can think of is that BRU is not configured properly or the command line options are wrong. Does the tape verify properly? -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------
Damian Buckley wrote:
only problem is trying to drum it into them about spaces in filenames when they have been used to Windows for so long.
Damian, There's no problem about spaces in filenames in Unix/Linux (or newlines or pretty much anything else - backspace is always a favourite :) There used to be a problem in DOS/Windows but as you point out, that was fixed some time ago. I see that you've asked eight questions on this list in the past two weeks. Looking at them again, I think you may find it useful to get hold of a book like 'Linux Administration Handbook' or 'Running Linux'. With these books, you'd be able to get much more complete information than the list is able to give. Cheers, Dave
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Damian Buckley
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Dave Howorth
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Graham Smith
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Ken Schneider