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ndmpcopy fails due to Illegal character in filename

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Applies to

Clustered ONTAP 8.2 through ONTAP 9.4

Issue

ndmpcopy fails to copy some files due to Illegal character in the filename.

Error log example (from backup.log):

Warning (Cannot create directory ./400_???????^?i??j/420_?S?????/:ABC7300: Illegal character in filename)

 

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