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karsten123
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files list from backup

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hi,
i need to dump a list of the guest os file from VAW backups with some metadata like directory, creation time, last write time, length, etc..
i have played around with FLR and get-childitem, but its slow and i had several problems with access denied and errors because of too long file paths.
is there a 2024-ish / v12.x way to accomplish that task?
Tia
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Re: files list from backup

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Hi Karsten,

Consider first enabling long paths on the VBR and Mount servers to handle the long-path errors. While this is just a guess, the access denied errors in Powershell can be returned by the same long-path issue in windows, so I'd at least try enabling long paths and retesting.

As for better ways of handling it beyond Get-ChildItem, not sure there's going to be a faster way, so I would just focus on enabling long-paths and try to utilize the filtering on Get-ChildItem to ensure it's not spending time on file types you're not concerned with/directories you aren't interested in.
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Re: files list from backup

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Hi David,

good point. i will give it a try.

Thank you very much
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