Administration passwords with special characters such as dollar signs might cause the ambkup utility to fail. The ambkup utility creates a command line for the ICE utility, and the special characters might be interpreted by it. If you must use special characters, and this issue arises, modify the defbkparm file so that the special characters are escaped.
For example, if the administrator’s password is mi$$le, then the field DS_ADMIN_PWD should be mi\$\$le.
This file is located in the /opt/novell/devman/bin/defbkparm.sh directory.