Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

Short filenames

You can back up and recover the short filenames that are automatically assigned by the Windows filename mapping feature.

Windows filename mapping is an operating system feature in which each file or folder with a name that does not conform to the MS-DOS 8.3 naming standard is automatically assigned a second name that does. For example, a directory named Microsoft Office might be assigned a second name of MICROS~2.

Backup and recovery of short filenames is disabled by default to improve performance. To enable backup and recovery of short filenames on a client, select the Short filenames checkbox on the Globals (2 of 2) tab of the Client Properties dialog box for the client resource.

You must enable diagnostic mode view by selecting View > Diagnostic Mode in the Administration window to access the Short filenames checkbox.