[gpfsug-discuss] mmbackup and filenames

[Marc A Kaplan]

The problem is that the Tivoli Storage Manager (Ahem Spectrum Protect) 
Filelist option has some limitations:

http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS8TDQ_7.1.0/com.ibm.itsm.client.doc/r_opt_filelist.html

...
The files (entries) listed in the filelist must adhere to the following 
rules:
Each entry must be a fully-qualified or a relative path to a file or 
directory. Note that if you include a directory in a filelist entry, the 
directory is backed up, but the contents of the directory are not.
Each path must be specified on a single line. A line can contain only one 
path.
Paths must not contain control characters, such as 0x18 (CTRL-X), 0x19 
(CTRL-Y) and 0x0A (newline).
By default, paths must not contain wildcard characters. Do not include 
asterisk (*) or question marks (?) in a path. This restriction can be 
overridden if you enable the option named ... AND SO ON...


IF TSM would implement some way of encoding or "escaping" special 
characters in filelists, we would happily fix mmbackup !

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