Re: [rdiff-backup-users] restoration failure on osx client

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Hunter Matthews <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Tue, 17 May 2005 15:52:17 -0400

> Client is osx 10.3.8, with rdiff-backup 0.13.6
> Server is linux (rhel3) with a jfs backup area and rdiff-backup 0.13.4.
> 
> Here is the filesystem originally backed up:
...
> -rw-r-----  1 xx19  xx19   20992 19 Apr 17:17 Cakes sale??s.doc
> 
> The ?? in the listing are various french letters with ` or ' or ^ over
> them.
> 
> Here is the directory on the backup server
...
> -rw-r-----  1 xx19     xx19      20992 Apr 19 17:17 Cakes sale??s.doc
> 
> Here's a test restore run for just this directory.
...
>  Characters needing quoting                   '^a-z0-9_ -.'
...
> xx19/Desktop/Cecile/recettes/Cakes sale?s.doc!
> The cause is probably data loss from the destination directory.
> 
> I end up with files in /tmp/restore that appear to have the correct
> name, but are empty.
> 
> Suggestions? Could this be a bug in 0.13.4 on the server side (its
> production server for other linux systems, I don't upgrade it
> lightly)

It looks like a mismatch between the filenames listed in the
mirror_metadata file and the filenames actually present in the backup
directory.

One thing I find curious is that rdiff-backup thinks the destination
is not case sensitive, and needs quoting.  This shouldn't be true of
jfs.  So perhaps the backup area was originally unquoted, then became
quoted somehow.  So maybe rdiff-backup is looking for quoted or
unquoted files when the ones that are there are the opposite.  I'm not
sure how this problem could happen though.

If this is right to restore you'd have to manually rename the files to
what rdiff-backup wants, or edit the file in the rdiff-backup-data
('chars-to-quote'?) which says which characters are quoted in the
destination dir.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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