Restore Short Names in Backupper File Backup
Dear AOMEI Team,
although there's not much left to wish in AOMEI Backupper, I came upon one thing:
With file/directory backup, Backupper does offer the option to restore NTFS ACLs (which is really cool), but preserving short names (8.3) is not possible. This might become a problem when backing up and restoring program directories (e. g. MS Office), since for some reason these files are often referenced in the registry by their 8.3 names.
Thanks a lot!
P.S.:
As a test I created a directory with several files beginning with the same letters:
Datentr„ger in Laufwerk C: ist SYSTEM
Volumeseriennummer: B816-7189
Verzeichnis von C:\Users\fstue\Desktop\Neuer Ordner
01.12.2015 21:56 <DIR> .
01.12.2015 21:56 <DIR> ..
01.12.2015 21:55 0 HA0366~1.TXT hallihallo - Kopie.txt
01.12.2015 21:55 0 HALLIH~1.TXT hallihallo.txt
01.12.2015 21:55 0 HA0E93~1.TXT hallihalloaberauch - Kopie.txt
01.12.2015 21:55 0 HALLIH~3.TXT hallihalloaberauch.txt
01.12.2015 21:55 0 HA3380~1.TXT hallihallonochmal - Kopie.txt
01.12.2015 21:55 0 HALLIH~2.TXT hallihallonochmal.txt
01.12.2015 21:55 0 HA6FCB~1.TXT hallihallonochmalaberauch - Kopie.txt
01.12.2015 21:55 0 HALLIH~4.TXT hallihallonochmalaberauch.txt
8 Datei(en), 0 Bytes
2 Verzeichnis(se), 114.048.745.472 Bytes frei
Then I backed up this directory, deleted it, restored it and got this:
Datentr„ger in Laufwerk C: ist SYSTEM
Volumeseriennummer: B816-7189
Verzeichnis von C:\Users\fstue\Desktop\Neuer Ordner
01.12.2015 22:05 <DIR> .
01.12.2015 22:05 <DIR> ..
01.12.2015 21:55 0 HALLIH~1.TXT hallihallo - Kopie.txt
01.12.2015 21:55 0 HALLIH~2.TXT hallihallo.txt
01.12.2015 21:55 0 HALLIH~3.TXT hallihalloaberauch - Kopie.txt
01.12.2015 21:55 0 HALLIH~4.TXT hallihalloaberauch.txt
01.12.2015 21:55 0 HA3380~1.TXT hallihallonochmal - Kopie.txt
01.12.2015 21:55 0 HAA816~1.TXT hallihallonochmal.txt
01.12.2015 21:55 0 HA6FCB~1.TXT hallihallonochmalaberauch - Kopie.txt
01.12.2015 21:55 0 HA14E9~1.TXT hallihallonochmalaberauch.txt
8 Datei(en), 0 Bytes
2 Verzeichnis(se), 114.048.217.088 Bytes frei
Please note that the short names have changed, since the files were (re)created (during restore) in another order than originally.
Comments
We feel sorry for the inconvenience that our software does not backup the short names.We will consider to make improvement on this issue.