After reading your previous email I went through and checked to see if
any of the missing paths (and this time I checked the entire path name)
matched that 255 limit, and even with the file name it did not exceed 40
characters so we are well below the 255 limit.  

Also the issue we are having is not that the data is corrupt, its that
the data was never even backed up, we set Legato to backup D:\ yet is
skipped many subfolders.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stan Horwitz [mailto:stan AT temple DOT edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 2:08 PM
To: Lusby, James
Cc: Legato NetWorker discussion
Subject: Re: [Networker] Missing data from server backup


On Jul 5, 2006, at 1:03 PM - 7/5/06, Lusby, James wrote:

> The client is running on windows but the subfolder names are all less
> than 20 characters long, nowhere near the 255 limit... however when  
> you
> say path length do you mean the entire:
> \\dcuser\users\username\subfolder1\*subfolder*  in which case yes it
> would probably be greater than 255...

Yes, I mean the entire path, including the file name and all folders  
and subfolders. A path length of 255 characters or greater is a deal  
breaker for Windows.

A few months ago, I had a similar situation where someone could not  
open an MS Word document, so they tried to recover it from backup  
tape. The recover failed. I tried to create a file with a long path  
name, just as an experiment and it failed on XP and 2003 and they  
both failed. I used a Mac workstation with OS X 10.4 to also create a  
file with a long path length and it had no problem with 500  
characters. I tried to zip the folder at the base of that long path  
name and unzip it on Windows and it would not let me.

So your question reminds me of something I  am curious about, how can  
Windows files with long path be created in the first place? 
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