Obviously, the drive letter is appended to the filespace_name to prevent
duplicate labels. Otherwise it wouldn't be possible to backup two
connected shares with the same share name or a local drive whose
drivename equals the share name of a connected share. You would then
get:
ANS7564E: Backuping up/Archiving drives with duplicate volume labels is
not allowed.
In your case you will get ANS7564E, if you label any of your local
drives to "ABC_E:"

Walter Dieringer,
VAI/VOEST Alpine Industrieanlagenbau, Linz, Austria
dieringe AT linz.vai.co DOT at

>----------
>From:  Ron Heflin[SMTP:RON.X.HEFLIN AT X400GW.AMERITECH DOT COM]
>Sent:  Wed; 1997; March 19 16:27
>To:    ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject:       Filespace names
>
>  I am backing up a mapped drive from a WIN NT workstation.
>  The label on the drive itself is ABC.
>  When I use ADSM to back up the drive, the filespace name
>    of the drive is ABC_E.  The drive is mapped to my machine
>    as an E drive.   Why is the E appended and is there any
>    way to get around this?  I don't want the E because it really
>    does not do anything for the identification of the drive and
>    I intend to backup many drives from different machines this way.
>
>
>  TIA
>
>  Ron Heflin
>  IBM Global Services
>