Followup: the commands suggested below didn't work for me, maybe I'm missing
something but piping to 'cat -vet' returned the same with a $ at the end of
each file but kept the ? in place of unrecognised/illegal characters.
Vaccaro Jewelers$
Van Doren 02?09$
Vecchitto, Jim$
Velocity, Inc?$
piping to 'od' returns a bunch of numbers I have no Idea what to make of (I
guess a little over my head).
The dot at the end of the file does seem to be a problem, see Velocity, Inc.
above (as far as I can see it is a true dot, just the '.' on the mac
keyboard... the same dot I would use in file.txt-which would work fine.))
I know... what are my users thinking, naming files like that...
For the slashes in the filenames I wrote dropplets and run them on a mac to
replace '/' with '_', pain, it's taking forever to clean the 60GB worth of
dirs but I think that will do.
As for amanda's reaction to it, it's a "STRANGE":
"FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
localhost //LEELOO/Typesetting lev 0 FAILED [disk //LEELOO/Typesetting
offline on localhost?]
localhost //LEELOO/Public lev 0 STRANGE"
Reason for the "strange":
"? NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND opening remote file \Brenda\Icon_
(\Brenda\)
? NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND opening remote file \Brenda\St. Augustine HL
Cat. Pg 8_.sea (\Brenda\)
? NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND opening remote file \Cindy\Al Winter BC
11_02.pdf (\Cindy\)"
The list is miles long...
Funny thing, the strange chars are replaced with '_' by amanda in the email
report.
Even if i didn't care about backing apple ICON files and files that aren't
named right I would still have a problem as Amanda will try to do a FULL
backup again the next day, I guess since there was a problem with this one it
won't switch to incremental.
As you see above, the other problem I'm having is one of the shares (on
windows machine) is that it appears "disconnected" to amanda.
I do have the right entry in /etc/amandapass, if I try to
'smbmount //LEELOO/Typesetting /mnt/Typesetting user=backup'
it asks for backup's password and mounts it fine. (backup is a user on the win
machine with admin power)
I'm getting stomped and tired of trying, did anyone face these issues? Am I
the only one with mac computers on the network dumping garbage files and
users that don't know any better than naming files this way? Any pointers
would really be appreciated.
Any commercial software that would solve the problem?
TIA
Rick
On Friday 03 January 2003 17:17, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 04:18:52PM -0500, Riccardo Parola wrote:
> > Not sure this is really Amanda related, but I'm sure someone here ran
> > into the same problem.
> >
> > I'm trying to back up 2 linux servers and one windows 2000 server with
> > amanda. There are a few Macs on the network, storing files in those
> > servers.
> >
> > Machintosh will let users save files with about any name they choose I
> > have users that didn't know better and started saving files with dates in
> > the name in the format "filename 12/31/02" and others with dots at the
> > end eg: "ACME Inc." on top of unrecognized characters and the list goes
> > on!
>
> True dots, i.e. periods at the end should be no problem at all.
>
> There are ways to find out what the actual chars are. For example, an ls
> (no color options) piped into 'cat -vet' might show ACME INC^B witht he ^B
> a ctrl-B.
>
> Also piping ls into od can give you hex or octal values for the chars.
>
> > Now when I try to mount those shares in linux any character that is
> > "illegal" is replaced with a question mark when listed but of course is
> > not found if called
> >
> > $ls
> > ACME INC?
> >
> >
> > $mv ACME INC? ACME INC
> > mv: cannot stat `ACME INC?': No such file or directory
>
> If it is the only "A" file, something like mv A* anyname might work.
> Or you might have to do something like mv ACME\ INC* anyname.
>
> > I guess it's out of the question to write a shell script to rename those.
> > Has anyone had to deal with this and how?
>
> The real problem is the / in the names. The only time I dealt with this
> I had available a unix command called fsdb. Don't think it is available
> in linux, but something similar might be available. It is basically a
> disk editor. I was able to unmount the file system, traverse the inodes
> and directories to the one I needed, find its data blocks on disk, and
> edit the entries. I changed the /'s to .'s or -'s. When remounted,
> problem gone.
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