Unable to restore from Shadow Copy due to long filename
- by Spongeboy
We have shadow copy enabled on our Windows SBS 2008 server. Attempting to restore a file from shadow copy gave the following error-
The source file name(s) are larger than is supported by the file system. Try moving to a location which has a shorter path name, or try renaming to shorter name(s) before attempting this operation.
The filename has 67 characters, and it's shadow copy path is 170 characters. These seem to be under the NTFS limits (260?).
We tried-
Copying to the shortest path possible (C:)
Copying to the shortest path possible on both a client computer and the server itself
Is it possible to rename files in a shadow copy, before doing the copy? Any idea why the error is appearing despite the filename size appearing to be within limits?