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Date:      Fri, 12 Jan 2001 09:35:13 -0500
From:      James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net>
To:        Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dump/restore and the silly filenames people use
Message-ID:  <3A5F1621.5B691665@thehousleys.net>
References:  <3A5F12DF.1E4BC791@mail.iowna.com>

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Bill Moran wrote:
> 
> First off, thanks and kudos to the all the developers of FreeBSD, Samba
> and Netatalk. I just set up a fileserver system for a client that works
> flawlessly with their NT, Mac & SGI clients. Very well done.
> 
> Now the question (having be preluded by the type os system involved)
> 
> I'm sure everyone here is familiar with the types of filenames that
> Mac/Windows users tend to use. Names like "Report to Acme Corp.
> 1-5-01.doc" While doing some testing I found that I could not get these
> files back from a dump using "restore -i". When attempting to add them,
> restore assumed that each word was a seperate file to be restored.
> Putting quotes around the name doesn't seem to work either.

You can always try two options.
1) "Report to Acme Corp.1-5-01.doc"
2) Report\ to\ Acme\ Corp.1-5-01.doc

Both are messy, but might do the trick

Jim

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