Thank you for the tip. Of course, this being a university, there are probably multiple languages in use. We have a "campus" in Doha, Qatar. How would I know which one to use?
Paul van Dongen <[email protected]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> 02/03/2009 02:20 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject [ADSM-L] RES: Backing up BlackBoard servers with "illegal characters" in filenames As Richard Sims nicely (as usual) explained in a previous reply, it is very likelly to be connected to a language/character set issue. I had this problem on two of my customers, where file names with accented characters (the clients were Linux file servers with Samba) created by the end-users would cause this. Solutions for me was simple. For the scheduled backups (dsmcad, since I was using MANAGEDSERVICES WEBCLIENT SCHEDULE), I created a smal shell containing just two lines: export LANG=pt_BR # Since the problem was related to Brazilian Portuguese /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmcad And this shell would be started at system startup, instead of dsmcad. ___________________________________________________ Paul Gondim van Dongen IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional Tivoli Storage Management Solutions 2006, 2007 & 2008 IBM Certified Deployment Professional - ITWS 8.2 IBM Certified Storage Administrator - ITSM V5.4 IBM Certified Solution Advisor - Tivoli Storage 2008 SNIA Certified Professional ITIL Foundation Certified ___________________________________________________ VANguard Value Added Network guardian +55-81-34198094 http://www.vanguard-it.com.br ________________________________________ De: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [[email protected]] em Nome de Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [[email protected]] Enviado: terça-feira, 3 de fevereiro de 2009 14:41 Para: [email protected] Assunto: Backing up BlackBoard servers with "illegal characters" in filenames There must be someone out here who can help with backing up systems that contain filenames that are considered "illegal" such as with parens/quotes/dquotes, not to mention foreigh character sets, in the file names. I have more than 2-servers that report hundreds of "Object name contains illegal characters" on a daily basis and I am getting tired of seeing these errors and would like to resolve them. ARISTOTLE3.VCU.EDU : ANE4042E Object name '/usr/local/blackboard/content/vi/bb_bb60/courses/1/ENGL-303-904-2006Summer/db/_967754_1/blackboard_learning_systemT_(release_6).txt' contains one or more unrecognized characters and is not valid. (SESSION: 43803) How do you handle these? These are Linux/Solaris systems and have fairly current clients.
