EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on 
04/07/2010 01:33:38 AM:

> Hi,
> 
> It's an old windows problem affecting not only networker but any 
> other software. There was a serie of patches to nsolve it. What is 
> your networker version ? Check the patch from emc

My NW is 7.5.2.

We resolved it by deleting the source path. :-) Turns out some script 
"stuttered", and created a path that was 3200 characters long. A program 
can read or manipulate that, but none of the Windows user tools (which are 
limited to the 256 character path, including Windows explorer and the 
command shell delete and "remove directory" commands). So we did something 
slightly clever - my guys used the robocopy utility, and it's "mirror" 
function to mirror a blank directory to the start of the bad directory 
structure. That then deleted all the bad directory structure underneath 
that point. Problem solved. :-)

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