I had the same problem. After a few hours of pulling out my hair I found that
the log files are full of nulls padding each letter. I had to something like
s/\x00// to kill all of the nulls.
Damon> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]>
Subject: Server 2003 NTBackup Log Files> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:52:44 +0000>
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi All,> > I've got a couple of problems with checking
backup log files generated by> windows 2003 server ntbackup. First and biggest
problem is that> backup[01-10].log files are unicode and when I open them and
check for> different strings I get no matches as it opens them in unicode and
not> ascii. I've searched everywhere for unicode to ascii conversion but can't>
find anything. Is there a simple way to open or convert the log file as> ascii
so I can do what I need to do? Here's the code I'm using to open the> file:> >
open(LOG,"<$backup_log_absol");> flock(LOG, 2);> my (@backlog) = <LOG>;> close
(LOG);> > Pretty standard but useless!!> > Secondly, although not really a
problem, is there any way I can condense the> following code:> > opendir DIR,
$log_dir or die "Error reading $log_dir: $!n";> my @sorted = sort {-M
"$log_dir/$b" <=> -M "$log_dir/$a"}> readdir(DIR);> closedir DIR;>
my(@logfiles);> foreach (@sorted) {> unless (($_ eq ".") or ($_ eq "..") or ($_
eq "fred.bks")) {> push @logfiles, "$_";> }> }> my $newestfile =
$logfiles[-1];> > As you can see I'm opening the ntbackup log file directory
away in docs &> settings to find the newest file thats not ".", ".." or
"fred.bks". It seems> dirty code to me and I'm sure it could be written
better.> > Thanks in advance for any help,> > Ewen> >
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