There is a Windows registy hack that you can use to turn off the generation
of 8.3 file names.

You can do the restores, then turn the 8.3 file names back on.
That prevents you from getting unnatural collisions during the restore.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/121007

However, it doesn't guarantee the 8.3 file names get created as they were
before, because WIndows creates the 8.3 on the fly when the long-name file
is created.

If you have 16bit apps that rely on specific 8.3 fileames, I think the way
you've found to do it is as good as any.



On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Kauffman, Tom <KauffmanT AT nibco DOT com> 
wrote:

> ----Original Message----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> Of Tim Brown Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 1:06 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Windows 2000 restore and long file names
>
> > TSM doesn't restore the folders with the same 8 character unicode
> > name.
> >
> > Original server names:
> >
> > c:\program files\Microsoft SQL Server   c:\progra~1\micros~1
> > c:\program files\Microsoft Office                c:\progra~1\micros~2
> >
> > After TSM restore, they were swapped since the Microsoft Office
> > folder got restored first.
> >
> > c:\progra~1\micros~1  c:\program files\Microsoft Office
> > c:\progra~1\micros~2  c:\program files\Microsoft SQL Server
> >
> > I know its Window 2000 and not everyone has not replaced or upgraded
> > all 2000 servers, but during a recent restore this happened. The
> > service on the server for Microsoft SQL server was coded with
> > c:\progra~1\micros~1.
> >
> > I redid the restore in the sequence of the original folders one at a
> > time to guarantee proper unciode naming to get past the issue.
> >
> > Is there any way to tell TSM to restore keeping the actual unicode
> > names.
>
> TSM *is* keeping the actual unicode names -- the mixed-case long file names
> are unicode. The file names with the squiggle (~) are dynamically generated
> by windows. Your only option is to try restoring by the 8.3 format short
> name (c:\progra~1\micros~1) - in which case I think the long file names will
> be lost.
>
> Tom Kauffman
> NIBCO, Inc
>
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