{"id":3526,"date":"2020-08-24T12:33:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T12:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=3526"},"modified":"2020-08-24T12:33:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T12:33:15","slug":"characters-to-avoid-when-naming-files-and-folders","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/article\/characters-to-avoid-when-naming-files-and-folders\/","title":{"rendered":"Characters to Avoid When Naming Files and Folders (JetBackup)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"what-is-jetbackup\">What is JetBackup?<\/h2>\n<p>JetBackup is a tool available in your cPanel which provides a powerful set of backup and recovery solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Our systems have been fully automated to create remote (off-site) backups for you, making this process super easy! We take daily off-site backups (around midnight) of your data and store them up to a certain number of days, based on your hosting plan.<\/p>\n<p>JetBackup is a feature ChemiCloud has added into your cPanel at no extra cost for our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/web-hosting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Web Hosting<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/wordpress-hosting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WordPress Hostin<\/a>g, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/reseller-hosting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reseller Hosting<\/a>\u00a0plans. If you are on a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/vps-hosting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VPS Hosting<\/a>\u00a0plan, you can get the daily remote backups service at an additional cost.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"characters-to-avoid-when-naming-files-and-folders-jetbackup\">Characters to Avoid When Naming Files and Folders (JetBackup)<\/h2>\n<p>While JetBackup supports almost any characters for filenames (UTF-8), there are special characters\/symbols that are generally best avoided as there are specific limitations across various filesystems and storage destinations which can cause unintended issues with your backups.<\/p>\n<p>This list is not exhaustive and is meant to help determine and avoid errors regarding filenames and your backups.<\/p>\n<table class=\"changesize table-striped table\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody valign=\"top\">\n<tr class=\"row-even\">\n<th class=\"stub\"># pound<\/th>\n<td><strong>% percent<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>&amp; ampersand<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>{ left curly bracket<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-odd\">\n<th class=\"stub\">} right curly bracket<\/th>\n<td><strong>\\ back slash<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>&lt; left angle bracket<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>&gt; right angle bracket<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-even\">\n<th class=\"stub\">* asterisk<\/th>\n<td><strong>? question mark<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>\/ forward slash<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>blank spaces<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-odd\">\n<th class=\"stub\">$ dollar sign<\/th>\n<td><strong>! exclamation point<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>&#8216; single quotes<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>&#8221; double quotes<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-even\">\n<th class=\"stub\">: colon<\/th>\n<td><strong>@ at sign<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>+ plus sign<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>` backtick<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-odd\">\n<th class=\"stub\">| pipe<\/th>\n<td><strong>= equal sign<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is JetBackup? 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