Backup fails because there is a period (".") at the end of my filename.

Hi JennC,
I'm sorry. I'm not really able to understand the confusion.

I did another test. This is what I did...

1) From windows, I created a file "testfile..she" with no period at the end, but two periods in the middle.
2) From linux, in the same directory, I generated  a file that has a period on the end of the filename (ie. after the '.she').

touch testfile.she.

Then I waited for the incremental backup to run.
Then I went to the ReadyNAS and accessed it via telnet, and looked at the backup folder.

This is what I found:

$  ls -al | grep testfile
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root   root          0 Jul 13 18:18 testfile.she..txt
$

As you can see, the file "testfile.she..txt" is there as expected. That works.

However, the file "testfile.she." is not there. That is not good.

I don't see any errors in the log file this time, perhaps because it was an incremental backup.

For now, I won't be concerned about it. But it is a bit alarming that some of my files are not being backed up.

Thanks for your help. Maybe it's a problem with CIFS and netgear is unable to do anything about it.
If that is the case, I understand.

:smileyhappy: