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Re: [Bacula-users] How to restore when there is /./ in path

2016-06-14 03:39:46
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How to restore when there is /./ in path
From: Peter Viskup <skupko.sk AT gmail DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 09:38:50 +0200
Maybe Bacula could perform deeper inspection of the FileSet definition
and replace all the double slashes, dot and dot-dot files accordingly.
At least for the restore. This behavior may be considered as bug.

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Peter Viskup <skupko.sk AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904875/basedefs/xbd_chap04.html#tag_04_11
>
> <cite>
> The special filename dot shall refer to the directory specified by its
> predecessor. The special filename dot-dot shall refer to the parent
> directory of its predecessor directory. As a special case, in the root
> directory, dot-dot may refer to the root directory itself.
> </cite>
>
> Simple test shows what's going on:
> $ mkdir test
> $ mkdir test/./
> mkdir: cannot create directory ‘test/./’: File exists
>
> --
> Peter Viskup
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 5:13 PM, bdam <bacula-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> 
> wrote:
>> I fixed this. For anyone else encountering it, when going through the 
>> restore process choose "mod" | "File Relocation" | "Strip prefix" and in the 
>> set I was using I entered "/data/home/./". This stops bacula trying to 
>> create the folder with name ".".
>>
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