Gil Naveh wrote:

We have a Solaris server that runs Amanda server on it.
I was successfully able to backup a window folder into it - using smbclient.
However, most of the folders I have to backup have names with spaces (aca
C:/hello Visual folder/).

And currently you can't escape spaces in the disklist file, as you have
found out already.  Patches welcome :-)

Any idea on how can I backup those folder? (unfortunately I can't change the
folder's name).
I wrote the folder name with single quote double quote in the disklist file.
But it did not work and amanda complained after running amcheck: # undefined
dumptype `Visual'
Is there a way to work around folder's names with spaces?

On the Solaris filesystem:
   ln -s 'hello Visual folder' hello_Visual_folder
and then put that entry in the disklist:

   the.solaris.host  /the/dir/hello_Visual_folder comp-user-tar

The trick is that gnutar does "chdir" to the toplevel directory
effectively resolving that toplevel symlink.  Any symlinks inside
a directory are NOT resolved -- but you wouldn't expect a symlink
inside a PC-folder anyway)


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