Hi!
There are more sides to this problem that's obvious at
first...
Scenario:
Server has a directory path 200 characters long:
E:\Directory_structure_191_Characters_Long\Share
(makes a total of 200 chars)
Then you share the directory "Share" and a client maps
a drive H: to that share.
The user at the client has a drive H:\, which is 3
chars long. On that drive the user can create a
directory structure or filename 252 chars long
(252+3=255). As an exampel the user creates a
structure 200 chars long. When you try to access this
path from the server
(E:\Directory_structure_191_Characters_Long\Share +
user path), you end up with a path 400 chars long. No
problems reading that from the mapped drive, but
Windows and, hence, the NetWorker client can only read
the first 255.
The problem you're discussing, restoring a file with a
path longer than 255 chars, isn't really a problem.
Why? You don't have a backup of the file in the first
place...
I really hope anyone can prove me wrong on this! :)
// Matts
--- Stefan Bartels
<stefan.bartels AT HAMBURG-MANNHEIMER DOT DE> skrev: > Hi,
>
> we have exactly the same Problems. We have opened a
> call at Mircosoft and
> they told us that the Microsoft OS (Win2k, WinNT,
> Win9x,...) and their
> products (Office, Exchange, Explorer, ...) uses
> sometimes the UNICODE and
> sometimes the ANSI API. The UNICODE could create
> Files, directories up to
> 32k. The ANSI could only 255 characters.
> 247 because you have to count the UNC name (Server
> and Volumename). We got
> our data on Novell NetWare 6.0/SP2 Server and the
> Users have pathlenght
> incl. Filename up to 320 characters.
> Backup is no Problem, the problem is the restore. We
> got an Abend (Abnormal
> End) on NetWare when we are trying to restore. I
> won´t think about a
> desaster recovery. A call at Novell is opened.
> Microsoft will change their robocopy Tool so that
> Administrator can move
> that files but Microsoft will not change their
> products so that they all
> use one API. Have you ever tried to access a
> dokument or file that is more
> that 255 characters? That will not work.
> How to do that? Rename the subdirectories so that
> you have all about 255 or
> more characters.
> Cool that Microsoft is within their productlines
> incompatible.
>
> We are waiting for the robocopy tool and than we
> copy all the Files and
> directories to a special directory next to the root.
>
> Regards
> Stefan Bartels
> ITERGO
> Hamburg
> Germany
>
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