[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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