The FSA archiving task aborts when the task name contains illegal characters

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Cause

When doing a run now in report mode for the FSA [File System Archiving] archiving task no report is generated and nothing is logged in the event log.

A Run Now in Normal mode will not archive anything and will not have any events in the log.

A Dtrace of the EVFsaArchivingTask process of the FSA archive task will reveal the following line "Exception: Illegal characters in path."  Below is a sample of a Dtrace with the error highlighted in bold:-

(EvFsaArchivingTask) <1500> EV-H{FILESYSTEMARCHIVINGCHECKPOINT.EN_US} Start reading the checkpoint file named .\FSATaskCheckPoint\File System Archiving Task ("H" Users Drive)_BDS Marketing_ReportRunNow.xml
(EvFsaArchivingTask) <1500> EV-H{FILESYSTEMARCHIVINGCHECKPOINT.EN_US} Exception: Illegal characters in path. Info: Diag: Type:System.ArgumentException ST:   at System.IO.Path.CheckInvalidPathChars(String path)|   at System.IO.Path.GetFileName(String path)|   at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode)|   at KVS.EnterpriseVault.FileServerArchive.FileSystemArchivingCheckPoint.ReadCheckPointFile(FileSystemTaskInfo taskInfo, String checkPointFile, Boolean loadBkFile)
(EvFsaArchivingTask) <1500> EV-H{FILESYSTEMARCHIVINGCHECKPOINT.EN_US} Start reading the checkpoint file named .\FSATaskCheckPoint\File System Archiving Task ("H" Users Drive)_BDS Marketing_ReportRunNow.xml.bk
(EvFsaArchivingTask) <1500> EV-H {FILESYSTEMARCHIVINGCHECKPOINT.EN_US} Exception: Illegal characters in path. Info: Diag: Type:System.ArgumentException ST:   at System.IO.Path.CheckInvalidPathChars(String path)|   at System.IO.Path.GetFileName(String path)|   at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode)|   at KVS.EnterpriseVault.FileServerArchive.FileSystemArchivingCheckPoint.ReadCheckPointFile(FileSystemTaskInfo taskInfo, String checkPointFile, Boolean loadBkFile)

Resolution

Rename the FSA archiving task taking out the illegal characters and restart the EV Admin service.
 

 

Issue/Introduction

The File System Archiving (FSA) archiving task aborts when the task name contains illegal characters.