Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem restoring dirs with spaces

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

Mark writes:

> I just encountered the following:
>=20
> BackupPC 2.1.2pl2, server and host both FC5, using rsync backup/restore=

>=20
> - Host contains empty directoy /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines
> - On BackupPC, browse to /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines, which contai=
ns 2 dirs
> - Select all and start the restore
>=20
> On host, BackupPC creates the dir /var/lib/vmware/Virtual\ Machines and=
 restores
> everything there.  (Note that the restored dir contains the \ trying to=
 escape
> the  space.)
>=20
> Result is:
> $ ll
> drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Sep 28 10:29 Virtual Machines
> drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 4096 Sep  8 09:11 Virtual\ Machines
>=20
> and my restored dirs are in the second directory.
>=20
> Easily fixed, but is there a config option to avoid this?

Just to summarize our off-list discussion and resolution: for the
local host backup/restore using sudo, "argList+" (which denotes
shell escaping of the argList) should be replaced by "argList"
(no shell escaping of the argList).

So this setting:

    $Conf{RsyncClientRestoreCmd} =3D '/usr/bin/sudo $rsyncPath $argList+'=
;

should instead be:

    $Conf{RsyncClientRestoreCmd} =3D '/usr/bin/sudo $rsyncPath $argList';=


Craig