Thank you for the tip.

Of course, this being a university, there are probably multiple languages 
in use. We have a "campus" in Doha, Qatar. How would I know which one to 
use?



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[ADSM-L] RES: Backing up BlackBoard servers with "illegal characters" in 
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As Richard Sims nicely (as usual) explained in a previous reply, it is 
very likelly to be connected to a language/character set issue. 

I had this problem on two of my customers, where file names with accented 
characters (the clients were Linux file servers with Samba) created by the 
end-users would cause this.

Solutions for me was simple. For the scheduled backups (dsmcad, since I 
was using MANAGEDSERVICES WEBCLIENT SCHEDULE), I created a smal shell 
containing just two lines:

export LANG=pt_BR    # Since the problem was related to Brazilian 
Portuguese 
/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmcad

And this shell would be started at system startup, instead of dsmcad.

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De: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] em Nome de Zoltan 
Forray/AC/VCU [zforray AT VCU DOT EDU]
Enviado: terça-feira, 3 de fevereiro de 2009 14:41
Para: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Assunto: 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.