Backup Exec path limits
Hello!
I have been searching alot and found several articles about the Backup Exec's maximum path limits
for BE 2010 and newer versions. I keep running into the 256 character -limit that is the known limit for NTFS -
file system. I know that Backup Exec is very capable of handling much longer file paths, but I have experienced
issues when trying to restore data from users network folder beyond 256 character path length. Some files gets
restored, but others do not. This happens very randomly and I haven't been able to reproduce the issue myself.
Still haven't found any absolute answer and/or reproducable sample paths that will not work properly wint BE 2010 restore.
Here is one quite similar to my problem: https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/missing-files-dlo-backupexec-11d
-Are there any official limits for path limits? I also searched throug BE Best practises, but found no answer there either.
This is also one of the closest hit I found: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH208132
If anyone has similar experiences or can provide me some official BE path limits, I would be very grateful!
PS. We are running the BE 2010 DLO 343B17a so maybe this has been fixed in the newer versions?
Best Regards
Jukka
Jukka,
As stated in the document you indicated you already came across, “Windows limits the combination of path and file names to 260 characters”. The limitation is within Windows and to my knowledge nothing that BE can do to correct it, and not something to be changed in future releases. I would advise not to include file paths that exceed the 256 characters and possibly upgrading to Backup Exec 2010 R3 as it is has corrected many known issues.