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Jukka_H
Level 3
11 years ago

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 ...
  • Laurie_Downey's avatar
    11 years ago

    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.

     http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH208132