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  2. NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. S3 Interface for MSDP
  4. S3 APIs for S3 interface for MSDP
  5. The naming rules for buckets and objects
NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

The naming rules for buckets and objects

The naming rules for buckets:

  • Bucket name must be between 3 and 63 characters long.

  • Bucket name can consist only lowercase letters, numbers, dots (.) and hyphens (-).

  • Bucket name must begin and end with a letter or number.

  • Bucket name must not be an IP address. For example, 192.168.5.4.

  • Bucket name must not start with the prefix xn--.

  • Bucket name must not end with the suffix -s3alias.

  • Avoid using dots (.) in bucket names.

The naming rules for objects:

  • The object name rules are the same as the file naming in UNIX file system.

  • Only URL encoding type is supported. The name should be encoded by URL Escape if escape is needed.

  • The object name must not start with or end with the slash.

  • The object name is processed by the following rules:

    • Replace multiple slashes with a single slash.

    • Eliminate each . path name element (the current directory).

    • Eliminate each inner .. path name element (the parent directory) along with the non-.. element that precedes it.

    • Eliminate .. elements that begin a rooted path: that is, replace "/.." by "/" at the beginning of a path.

    • The returned path ends in a slash only if it is the root "/".

    • If the result of this process is an empty string, it returns the string ".".

    • If the object name includes "%", it is treated as encoded name.

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