Networker

Re: [Networker] Windows, POSIX/NFS, filenames and backups

2005-09-22 16:09:57
Subject: Re: [Networker] Windows, POSIX/NFS, filenames and backups
From: Dave Mussulman <mussulma AT CS.UIUC DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:04:44 -0500
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 07:14:34PM +0200, Hrvoje Crvelin wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>  
> > It would seem from your post that ntabckup and the networker client for
> > windows are not using the POSIX-compliant API.  As a result they can't
> > handle differing cases.
> By default they can as far as I remember as that is why when you do a restore
> you may end up with same files with different cases.  This is enabled by 
> default
> (or at least it was).  To disable it you must set 
> NSR_DISABLE_POSIX_CREATE=YES.
> You can find this is release supplement.  I would assume this mean NW does use
> POSIX-compliant API.

That might be true for writing, but I know that Networker (and ntbackup)
aren't using a POSIX-compliant API for reading the files.

Dave

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