Hi Everyone,
now i've got a real weird problem. The scenario is a little bit complex, but
i hope i describe everything needed to reproduce this one.
We have a Webserver under W2k3 (incl. every patch available through WSUS).
On this machine exists an FTP Server. Within this server, there are user
home directories, which exist as real path within the filesystem (e.g.
d:\web\ftp\users\someuser). Now i have one account which also gets access to
some www directory (e.g. d:\web\www\somedir). To implement this i set up a
junction point within the someuser dir which shows to somedir. So the ftp
user can logon and change into the subfolder somedir and can see everything
as if he would directly access this directory under wwwroot. He can (as it's
permitted) read, write, add and delete as wanted and till now everything
works very well.
On this webserver i installed the DPM Agent and i told him to protect the
folder d:\web. Everything was installed correctly and within DPM Server
everything looks ok. But if i now connect myself over FTP to the web server
and put a file through that junction point on the server, the file will be
created with the whole name in uppercase! So i take the file 'testfile.txt'
with some random content and copy it on the server. If i now take a look at
this filename (no matter if over FTP or directly with explorer on that
machine) it will appear as 'TESTFILE.TXT'.
At next i just go into DPM Manager, selected the protected server and delete
all protection groups and even the Agent. After that a restart wasn't needed
and now the file will appear as 'testfile.txt'. As last step i just
installed the DPM Agent again and restarted the server (DPM Manager says
this is needed). An upload right now makes no problem, the file appears in
lowercase. But as last step i create a protection group and add the folder
d:\web to it. I set the times, when the backup should start and click on the
finish button. A new window appears and shows the steps which are taken (e.
g. creating the DPM Partition for this group). And if i'm going to upload
right after this step my file through ftp it will appear in UPPERCASE.
The weird thing now is, when i upload some file not into the junction point,
but instead into a real folder under someuser it appears as intended. Just
in the case i create a file through ftp within a junction point on a DPM
protected folder i'm running into these problems. So what's going on here?
For now i found my solution by just removing the junction point and instead
using an alias within my FTP server. So for the ftp users there are no
changes, but it seems to be a little problem here within windows.
Best regards,
Oliver Münchow
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