Hi Rob, Robert, More details. lsattr on the original file gives -------------e-- /home/davidc/#.fetchmailrc#
bup ls -l of the problem file gives -rwx------ davidc/davidc 833 2015-01-20 23:42 home-dir/latest/home/davidc/#.fetchmailrc# Using --exclude-rx (the second one) I got past the first problem, but then crashed on a different file Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/bup/cmd/bup-restore", line 343, in <module> do_node(n.parent, n, opt.sparse, owner_map, meta = meta) File "/usr/lib/bup/cmd/bup-restore", line 279, in do_node do_node(top, sub, sparse, owner_map, meta = m) File "/usr/lib/bup/cmd/bup-restore", line 281, in do_node apply_metadata(meta, fullname, opt.numeric_ids, owner_map) File "/usr/lib/bup/cmd/bup-restore", line 105, in apply_metadata m.apply_to_path(name, restore_numeric_ids = restore_numeric_ids) File "/usr/lib/bup/bup/metadata.py", line 809, in apply_to_path apply_metadata(path, restore_numeric_ids=num_ids) File "/usr/lib/bup/bup/metadata.py", line 611, in _apply_linux_attr_rec set_linux_file_attr(path, self.linux_attr) OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: 'davidc/#mredauto#1#' lsattr of the original file is -------------e-- /home/davidc/#mredauto#1# bup ls -l of the file stored in bup is bup ls -l home-dir/latest/home/davidc/#mredauto#1# -rw-r--r-- davidc/davidc 7790 2014-01-07 15:43 home-dir/latest/home/davidc/#mredauto#1# The file is a racket (scheme IDE) file. It's contents are just text. It's scheme script with some extra annotation. Nothing particularly special. I've not included it because it's a bit long, but I can later if you want Let me know if you need other stuff. Regards, David On Tue, 7 Jul 2015 at 15:15 Rob Browning <r...@defaultvalue.org> wrote: > David Creelman <creelman.da...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Having said that, it's just vanilla text. Nothing odd in it at first > glance. > > It's ls -l is > > -rwx------ 1 davidc davidc 833 Jan 20 23:42 /home/davidc/#.fetchmailrc#* > > file gives > > /home/davidc/#.fetchmailrc#: ASCII text > > OK, thanks, and the lsattr call is the one most directly related to the > error you encountered, so the output of that would still be interesting. > > -- > Rob Browning > rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org > GPG as of 2011-07-10 E6A9 DA3C C9FD 1FF8 C676 D2C4 C0F0 39E9 ED1B 597A > GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 >