ERROR : cannot opendir '.'

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Regards. I have NetWorker 7.2.1 and having this error for folders ending in periods. : cannot opendir '.' (E:\controldefectos\SCCD\TestDatastore\TMS_TestPlans\Pruebas SCCD.TestPlan\Administrativas.CaseF\Cajas.CaseF\Cambio de clave SFB.\): No such file or directory I cannot rename the folder, so it should remains with the ending period. Is there any special way to tell NetWorker to backup such a folder?

ble1 · Answer

How did that folder got created in first place? From CLI I tried to create it, but you can't. This leads to believe that such thing might be not supported by MS or at least from interface I used to create such directory. Probably same API is used by NW and can't handle such directories. I believe what you have is part of MS limitation which as consequence is applied to save after.

C:\Documents and Settings\Hrvoje Crvelin>mkdir test.
 
C:\Documents and Settings\Hrvoje Crvelin>dir | findstr test
16/03/2007  22:56              test
              27 File(s)     11,997,695 bytes
              15 Dir(s)  14,845,132,800 bytes free
 
C:\Documents and Settings\Hrvoje Crvelin>cd test
 
C:\Documents and Settings\Hrvoje Crvelin\test>pwd
C:\Documents and Settings\Hrvoje Crvelin\test
 
C:\Documents and Settings\Hrvoje Crvelin\test>

Explorer won't let you do that either. It seems as application or user which did that is not using what MS likes.

ble1 · Answer

Of course raw file system backup should not have issue with that, but you probably don't wish that.

Queenie2_72ba49 · Answer

I encountered the same error in Networker version 7.3. Any solutions for this? Thank you.

dpinink_silva · Answer

Hi Queenie,I found some articles in MS's KB about files/folders with ending periods, and in every case the file was created by Macintosh computers, and some of them says to upgrade NT Backup (it's a MS KB) or that this is not supported on some filesystems. But I just took a rapid look, may you should check that with MS first, if this is supported for your system. If your Windows does not fully support that, Nw won't too.

ble1 · Answer

How did you create such folder in the first place?

NetWorker

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