Windows Server wbadmin recover with commas
- by dlp
I want to do a recovery of files with commas in their names from the command line, ala:
wbadmin start recovery -version:10/01/2013-12:00 -itemType:File -overwite:Overwrite -quiet "-Items:C:\Path\To\File, With Comma.txt,C:\Path\To\File 2, With Comma.txt"
So there are two files:
C:\Path\To\File, With Comma.txt
C:\Path\To\File 2, With Comma.txt
The problem is wbadmin assumes commas separates each file, so it sees 4 files specified instead of 2. I've tried putting a \ in front of commas that are part of the file names like so:
wbadmin start recovery -version:10/01/2013-12:00 -itemType:File -overwite:Overwrite -quiet "-Items:C:\Path\To\File\, With Comma.txt,C:\Path\To\File 2\, With Comma.txt"
but it doesn't work, it just says there's a syntax error. The documentation on Technet doesn't seem to mention anything that'll help either.
OS is Windows Server 2008 R2.
A clarifying comment: I've changed the file names to be different than the actual names to be less revealing, but I also see I dumbed it down too much. The comma can occur either in the file name itself like C:\Path\To\File, With Comma.txt' or in the path to the file, like:C:\Path, To\Other\File.txt`.
