Chris Robinson wrote:
> While we are at it....
> I agree to everything said so far and here is another goodie -
> When I do a full volume restore sometimes I get duplicate folders and
> files for example:
> The file backed up is : My Annual Documents
>
> ADSM restores: My Annual Documents and MyAnnualDocuments, sans the
> spaces!
> This is not rocket science folks and I don't want to open ANOTHER call
> with IBM.
>
> Thanks -
> CR

Chris,
I took the liberty of posting your question over on devsup.netpub.com under the
novell.devesup.supported.sms newsgroup.

David Jensen from Novell has a few suggestions to help debug this.
Frank Ramke

David G. Jensen wrote:
>
> I don't believe I've seen this before.
>
> Do you know what the state of the volume was prior to the (full) restore -
> what
> namespaces resided on the volume, etc.  Also, was the volume mounted on a
> NetWare 3.x or 4.x server?
>
> If there is one (and only one) occurance of the folder "My Annual
> Documents"
> on the bkup image, I'd guess that there is an issue with namespaces.
>
> Is there any way that the restore could be done on another volume, to
> determine if
> the behavior is the same?  This might provide a clue as to whether the
> problem was
> on the image, or occurs due to an anomoly during the restore...
>
> Frank Ramke wrote:
>
> > Has anyone seen the following?
> >
> > "When I do a full volume restore sometimes I get duplicate folders and
> > files for example:
> > The file backed up is : My Annual Documents
> >
> > ADSM restores: My Annual Documents and MyAnnualDocuments, sans the
> > spaces!"
> >
> > Sounds like a possible TSA/SIDF error.
> >
> > Not that the TSA would create both at the same time, but that a
> > directory may be created without the spaces at all. ADSM never creates
> > directory entries. It is totally reliant on the TSA. This error was
> > brought to our attention by an ADSM customer.
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> > Regards,
> > Frank Ramke
>
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