[wplug] samba back over network
Eric Peterson
epeterson at talerman.com
Wed Mar 24 13:50:00 EST 2004
> > > Samba can be difficult to backup because it allows
> filenames, etc that are
> > > invalid on the underlying Linux filesystem.
> >
> > What's an example of an invalid filename? I have plenty of
> files in ext3
> > and jfs filesystems with spaces and punctuation, if that's
> what you mean.
>
> A file with a (forward) slash in the name?
> That might be legal in Windoze.
C:\temp>copy con "bad/filename"
foo^Z
The system cannot find the path specified.
0 file(s) copied.
C:\temp>
Attempts to save to same filename under other applications also fail.
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