Ransomware attackers specifically target and attempt to destroy backup systems to increase the probability of payment. Hardening your system is critical. Please ensure you have reviewed your platform security using the Security Hardening Checklist
Cohesity

COHESITY Documentation

Explore our documentation to get started, discover products & new features, access troubleshooting guides, register sources, platforms support.

Products
Data Security Alliance
Visit Cohesity.com
Demos
Support
Blogs
Developers
Partner Portals
Cohesity Community
© 2026 Cohesity, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Terms of Use|
Privacy Policy|
Legal|
  1. Home
  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Cloud Administrator's Guide
  3. About the cloud storage
  4. About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type
  5. About NetBackup character restrictions for Amazon S3 cloud connector
Veritas NetBackup™ Cloud Administrator's Guide

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.

Characters to avoid as per Amazon S3 Object Key Naming guidelines:

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 |

Characters to avoid as per NetBackup S3 connector guidelines:

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.

Feedback

Was this page helpful?
Previous

Configuring AWS IAM Role with NetBackup

Next

Protecting data with Amazon Snowball and Amazon Snowball Edge

Feedback

Was this page helpful?