Jeff Kennedy wrote:
> 
> I now have all my backups using 8.3 name format.  Don't know how it
> happened but I do know when, last Friday when we were messing around
> trying to get a restore to work.  We changed some things on the target
> but I don't remember what exactly.  We reconfigured a new target last
> night but the backups still showed truncated names for both files and
> directories.
> 
> What the heck did I do?!  This is a serious problem for me as I can't
> recover the data correctly amymore.
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> =====================
> Jeff Kennedy
> Unix Administrator
> AMCC
> jlkennedy AT amcc DOT com


You're probably going to have to modify (or take out, then readd) each
of your targets to be the 'long' namespace as opposed to the DOS
namespace. You say you 'reconfigured' a new target, but is the namespace
correct? Based on your problem, this seems the likely problem. In your
target files, do you have "Resource = 4 ...." in them, or is it
something else? "4" represents the Long/OS2 namespace.

Hope this helps.


RCA
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