There must be someone out here who can help with backing up systems that
contain filenames that are considered "illegal" such as with
parens/quotes/dquotes, not to mention foreigh character sets,  in the file
names.

I have more than 2-servers that report hundreds of "Object name contains
illegal characters" on a daily basis and I am getting tired of seeing
these errors and would like to resolve them.

ARISTOTLE3.VCU.EDU : ANE4042E Object name
'/usr/local/blackboard/content/vi/bb_bb60/courses/1/ENGL-303-904-2006Summer/db/_967754_1/blackboard_learning_systemT_(release_6).txt'
contains one or more unrecognized characters and is not valid. (SESSION:
43803)

How do you handle these?

These are Linux/Solaris systems and have fairly current clients.