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Strange Folder Names...
We have a ReadyNAS516 with six 4TB drives in RAID six. The OS is version 6.5.1. I have a USB dock attached to the right rear USB port. I have 5 SSD's, one for each week day that I switch out on the USB dock. I have a share called "Backups". I'm trying to backup a folder within this share, \Backups\Tony\Projects. In the backup settings, under the destination tab I have USB/Back right under the "name" field, and "Projects" (without quotes) under the path field. I can't use the full path since the SSD changes daily, thus the path name changes. The backup gets created properly, but instead of the destination folder being called "Projects", it's called "PHBUY4~T" (without quotes). I tried \Projects in the destination path field, but it still gets created as PHBUY4~T on the SSD. Why is it doing this? Oh, the destination folder doesn't yet exists on the SSD before the backup.
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How is the USB drive formatted?
The SSD's are formatted as NTFS. The folder name PHBUY4~T looks sort of like the old 8.3 file names, but I would expect a name more like Project~s, not something random.
It clearly looks like a mangled name though. But it is odd that you are seeing it.
You are seeing these names with the USB drive connected to a windows system? Or is it connected to the NAS?
I just checked a few other of my backups. My PostgresSQL backup has a destination of USB/Back right and a path of /Postgres and the destination folder gets created properly. It only appears to be the one backup misnaming the destination folder PHBUY4~T instead of "Projects".
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