Sean M Clark wrote:
>
> We've got several machines where Symantec Antivirus appears to butt in
> and bog down file tranfers severely as it apparently scans every single
> file before it's transferred (or at least this is what I believe is
> happening).
>
> Previously, we found that we could temporarily halt Symantec at the
> start of a backup job with an appropriate call to smc.exe via
> "ClientRunBeforeJob" and then re-enable it similarly once the backup was
> done.
>
> The problem is, I could never manage to get "ClientRunBeforeJob" to
> correctly pass the full pathname with spaces in it, despite trying every
> combination of single-quotes, double-quotes, escaped spaces (i.e.
> "C:\\Program\ Files\\" or for that matter "C:/Program\ Files") that I
> could think of. I was able to get it to work using the old-school
> mangled DOS filenames ("C:\Progra~1\Symant~1\Smc.exe"). However, these
> clients appear to have been moved to new "Vista 64" boxes, and bacula-fd
> is complaining that these paths don't exist anymore.
>
> Rather than muddling around with guessing the mangling of THIS set of
> directories (or watching backups run at ~200kB/s for days...), can
> anyone give me some hints about how to properly pass pathnames with
> spaces to the Windows bacula-fd in ClientRun(Before|After)Job directives?
>
> (There also seems to be an unrelated problem with the 3.0.2 64-bit
> Windows client installer, but I think I've just about got that one
> figured out. I'll report that separately when I'm more confident I know
> what's going on.)
>
Perhaps you can start reading the manual section about RunScript on windows,
it gives advices and example on how to handle spaces, accent and other funny
things on Micro$oft environment.
http://www.bacula.org/3.0.x-manuals/en/install/install/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION00630000000000000000
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