Paul thanks much for your help but the symlink did not resolve the problem.
It seems that Amanda does not read it.
When running amcheck I get the following error:
#Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
#--------------------------------
#ERROR: solarisserver: [could not access Files/hello_Visual_folder/'
(//winserver'/Program): No such file or directory]
#Client check: 1 host checked in 1.049 seconds, 1 problem found
Any other thoughts on how to resolve it?
Gil
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
[mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org]On Behalf Of Paul Bijnens
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 12:31 PM
To: Gil Naveh
Cc: Amanda-Users
Subject: Re: back up a window folder
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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