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Hello.

On one host I would like to backup the Windows "Documents and Settings"
directory from Linux, but it appears Amanda is bitching about those
embedded whitespaces.

I've tried both escaping them and quoting the whole path (as above), but
still no luck.

Has anyone dealt with a similar problem before? Apart from simply
ignoring such paths, how should I add them to the disklist?

TIA,
Andrea.

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* Andrea Borgia <borgia < at > cs.unibo.it> [2004:07:15:18:48:50+0200] scribed:
Hello.

On one host I would like to backup the Windows "Documents and Settings"
directory from Linux, but it appears Amanda is bitching about those
embedded whitespaces.

I've tried both escaping them and quoting the whole path (as above), but
still no luck.

Has anyone dealt with a similar problem before? Apart from simply
ignoring such paths, how should I add them to the disklist?

Assuming that you are backing up over Samba, what I do is share
"Documents and Settings" as something else (e.g., docs), which
alleviates this problem.

hth

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Michael D Schleif wrote:

Assuming that you are backing up over Samba, what I do is share
"Documents and Settings" as something else (e.g., docs), which
alleviates this problem.

Nope, sorry I forgot that bit: the client is running Linux and I am
trying to backup that directory that is located on the Windows partition
on the same disk and mounted read-only.

Can anything be done in this situation? I mean, short of having XP
zipping the directory and placing the result in a "well-behaved" path.

Andrea.

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

Andrea Borgia wrote:
the client is running Linux and I am
trying to backup that directory that is located on the Windows partition
on the same disk and mounted read-only.

Then create a symlink to that directory with a simple name from
somewhere else and backup that symlink (not the directory containing it,
but the link itself).

Alex

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Alexander Jolk wrote:


Then create a symlink to that directory with a simple name from
somewhere else and backup that symlink (not the directory containing it,
but the link itself).

So brilliantly simple and obvious that I didn't think of it 8-)

I still believe amanda should deal with such filenames properly, but
this workaround is more than ok with me. Tested it today and it appears
to be fine.

Thanks,
Andrea.

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?