It looks like this issue was opened on github
<https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/issues/175> a couple of days ago. I
responded there with some suggestions.
Craig
On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Holger Parplies <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> let's start over.
>
> Jens Potthast wrote on 2017-12-13 14:01:46 +0100 [[BackupPC-users] Trouble
> with restore]:
> > [...]
> > I needed to restore a couple of files
> > recently. The last time, I had to restore some files was years ago. At
> that
> > time it was no problem. Right now, restore fails:
> >
> > Running: /usr/bin/smbclient \\\\server\\sharename -U backuppcuser -E -d
> 1 -c
> > tarmode\ full -mSMB3 -Tx -
> > Running: /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h hostname -n 1886
> -s
> > sharename -t -r /Path\ to\ file -p /Path\ to\ file/filename.txt
>
> you've got an error in your arguments, or you've misquoted from your log
> file
> (or your version of BackupPC is broken). That may or may not be related,
> but
> it's something to check. You are apparently using the web interface for a
> direct restore to the client system.
>
> a) Personally, I wouldn't do that, but you may have good reasons.
> b) You are possibly filling in some incorrect values into the web form. The
> arguments to BackupPC_tarCreate are directing it to
> - remove "/Path to file" from the paths in the backup and
> - add "/Path to file/filename.txt" in front of all paths.
> Is that what you want? The "filename.txt" seems misplaced, and it will
> likely be difficult to create a directory of that name on the target
> system if there happens to be a file of that name present, which might
> explain your error (or not).
> Also, there are no file name arguments, which should cause
> BackupPC_tarCreate to terminate with an error message. Strange.
> Note: the '-r' and '-p' arguments wouldn't be created if the two paths
> were equal (at least the code says so).
>
> > [...]
> > tarCreate: Done: 1 files, 237695 bytes, 0 dirs, 0 specials, 0 errors
>
> That sounds as if it had worked ...
>
> > tar:1596 Can't mkdir Path to filename: NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_COLLISION
>
> ... and that doesn't mention "filename.txt".
>
> What's in the RestoreInfo.xxx file for the restore attempt?
>
> Regards,
> Holger
>
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