About NetBackup character restrictions for Amazon S3 cloud connector
NetBackup S3 cloud connector on the S3 compliant cloud storage does not support VMware and Hyper-V backups if the virtual machine display name contains unsupported characters. The unsupported characters are listed in the Object Key Naming guidelines from Amazon S3.
The virtual machine display name maps to the key name in Amazon S3 context. Therefore, avoid the following set of characters in a virtual machine display name:
Backslash \
Left curly brace {
Right curly brace }
Non-printable ASCII characters (128 - 255 decimal characters)
Caret ^
Percent character %
Grave accent or back tick '
Right square bracket ]
Left square bracket [
Quotation marks "
Tilde ~
Less Than symbol <
Greater Than symbol >
Pound character #
Vertical bar or pipe |
Avoid the following set of characters in a virtual machine display name:
Ampersand &
Dollar $
ASCII character ranges 00 - 1F hex (0 - 31 decimal) and 7F (127 decimal)
At symbol @
Equals =
Semicolon ;
Colon :
Plus +
Space (Significant sequences of spaces may be lost in some uses, especially multiple spaces)
Comma ,
Question mark ?
Right round parenthesis )
Left round parenthesis (
Note:
For an updated list of characters to avoid, refer to Amazon S3 documentation.