First things first. You've probably done this already, but have you checked for 
Unicode compatibility within each filesystem definition in the TSM server?

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Mark Stapleton
System engineer, CDW


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 10:41 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Backing up BlackBoard servers with "illegal characters" in 
filenames

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.

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