Craig-
Thank you. I appreciate you taking a look at this.
On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Craig Barratt <
cbarr...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Ray,
>
> This is now fixed in master (248f192).
>
> It was getting too aggressive stripping common portions of the remote
> directory path off, and it was empty (instead of "/") in the case you
> mentioned, causing the restore to the home directory, not /.
>
> Craig
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Ray Frush <fr...@rams.colostate.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> I’ve been away from BackupPC for a few years, and have just installed
>> 4.1.1 as a proposed solution in our environment. My previous experience
>> has been with 3.x versions of BackupPC, which I’ve had great experiences
>> with.
>>
>> My question/observation is this:
>>
>> In my Test Case, I deleted ‘/opt' from my Linux system that is being
>> backed up by BackupPC.
>>
>> Pass 1:
>> In my first attempt to restore ‘/opt’, I navigated to the most recent
>> backup and selected the checkbox next to the folder “opt” and hit “Restore
>> selected files”.
>> The next screen, I kept the default host, share and dir (testserver, /,
>> /) and hit “Start Restore”. The final confirmation screen showed:
>>
>> You are about to start a restore directly to the machine testserver. The
>> following files will be restored to share /, from backup number 3:
>> Original file/dir Will be restored to
>> testserver://opt testserver://opt
>>
>> However, the files were restored into "testserver:/root/opt”. Not
>> exactly what I was expecting. I did this test twice to be sure.
>>
>>
>> Pass 2:
>> In my next attempt, instead of selecting “/opt” from the top level of the
>> restore screen, I navigated into the "/opt” directory which showed a list
>> of all the files/directories in /opt, and then selected “Select all” and
>> proceeded with the restore. Once again, I navigated through the next
>> screen keeping the defaults, and the final confirmation screen again showed:
>>
>> You are about to start a restore directly to the machine testserver. The
>> following files will be restored to share /, from backup number 3:
>> Original file/dir Will be restored to
>> testserver://opt testserver://opt/
>>
>> In this example, the files were flawlessly restored to the correct
>> location, ’testserver:/opt’.
>>
>>
>> I’m wondering if anyone else has observed this behavior, or can suggest
>> what I might be doing incorrectly to get the unexpected result in my first
>> test case. Otherwise it sounds like I may have hit a bug.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> I’ve been away from BackupPC for a few years, and have just installed
>> 4.1.1 as a proposed solution in our environment. My previous experience
>> has been with 3.x versions of BackupPC, which I’ve had great experiences
>> with.
>>
>> My question/observation is this:
>>
>> In my Test Case, I deleted ‘/opt' from my Linux system that is being
>> backed up by BackupPC.
>>
>> Pass 1:
>> In my first attempt to restore ‘/opt’, I navigated to the most recent
>> backup and selected the checkbox next to the folder “opt” and hit “Restore
>> selected files”.
>> The next screen, I kept the default host, share and dir (testserver, /,
>> /) and hit “Start Restore”. The final confirmation screen showed:
>>
>> You are about to start a restore directly to the machine testserver. The
>> following files will be restored to share /, from backup number 3:
>> Original file/dir Will be restored to
>> testserver://opt testserver://opt
>>
>> However, the files were restored into "testserver:/root/opt”. Not
>> exactly what I was expecting. I did this test twice to be sure.
>>
>>
>> Pass 2:
>> In my next attempt, instead of selecting “/opt” from the top level of the
>> restore screen, I navigated into the "/opt” directory which showed a list
>> of all the files/directories in /opt, and then selected “Select all” and
>> proceeded with the restore. Once again, I navigated through the next
>> screen keeping the defaults, and the final confirmation screen again showed:
>>
>> You are about to start a restore directly to the machine testserver. The
>> following files will be restored to share /, from backup number 3:
>> Original file/dir Will be restored to
>> testserver://opt testserver://opt/
>>
>> In this example, the files were flawlessly restored to the correct
>> location, ’testserver:/opt’.
>>
>>
>> I’m wondering if anyone else has observed this behavior, or can suggest
>> what I might be doing incorrectly to get the unexpected result in my first
>> test case. Otherwise it sounds like I may have hit a bug.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Ray Frush "Either you are part of the solution
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