Restrictions on the NetBackup installation directory
Each NetBackup supported file system defines restrictions on file and folder names for the installation folder. Consult the file system vendor provided documentation for more details on the file and the folder name restrictions.
Additionally, NetBackup supports only certain characters for the installation folder name. Use of non-supported characters can produce unexpected results and possibly result in lost data. The NetBackup supported characters for the installation folder are:
UNIX and Linux
The POSIX fully portable file name characters (
A - Z a - z 0 - 9 . _ -)Windows
The printable characters within the ASCII 7-bit range
Note:
On Traditional Chinese and Korean versions of Windows, if the NetBackup client is installed to a path that contains a space, restore operations may fail. Paths such as C:\Program Files contain a space. Make sure to install the NetBackup client software to a path that does not contain a space on these versions of Windows.
Be aware that for Windows primary servers, if you install NetBackup into a directory name with two periods, some restore operations fail. Directory names such as ..foldername or folder..name are examples of directories where a restore can fail.
The database user must own the NetBackup database directory. The user that owns the database directory must not change. The directory name itself must also not change. For Linux, the database folder is /usr/openv/db/data. For Windows, it is install_path\NetBackupDB\data.