#24 filenames with square brackets are not being backed up

[koem2]

Hi Gundolf,

I'm using your tool since ever and I love it. I just discovered a problem which makes the restore process abort.

Files like "a[0]" are not backed up. here my protocol:

######## this is the examplatory dir I wanna backup

######## one file with square brackets in its name

koem@atze:~/tmp/b2ltmp> ls -l backthisup/
insgesamt 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 koem koem 27 Dez 18 13:03 a[0]

######## relevant stuff from backup2l.conf

koem@atze:~/tmp/b2ltmp> cat backup2l.conf | grep "^SRCLIST\|^SKIPCOND"
SRCLIST=(/home/koem/tmp/b2ltmp/backthisup)
SKIPCOND=(-path ".nobackup" -o -name "*.o")

######## backing up ... no problem

koem@atze:~/tmp/b2ltmp> backup2l -c backup2l.conf -b
backup2l v1.5 by Gundolf Kiefer

Wed Dec 18 13:06:48 CET 2013

Running pre-backup procedure...
pre-backup: nothing to do

Removing old backups...

Preparing differential level-3 backup <b2ltmp.1001> based on <b2ltmp.1>...
1 / 1 file(s), 1 / 1 dir(s), 27 B / 27 B (uncompressed)
skipping: 0 file(s), 0 dir(s), 0 B (uncompressed)

Creating archive using 'DRIVER_TAR_GZ'...
Checking TOC of archive file (< real file, > archive entry)...
Creating check file for <b2ltmp.1001>...

Running post-backup procedure...
post-backup: nothing to do

Wed Dec 18 13:06:48 CET 2013

Summary

Backup Date Time | Size | Skipped Files+D | New Obs. | Err.

b2ltmp.1 2013-12-18 13:01 | 699 | 0 2 | 2 0 | 0
b2ltmp.1001 2013-12-18 13:06 | 1000 | 0 2 | 2 2 | 0

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 428G 349G 58G 86% /home/koem

######## restoring ...

######## backup aborts

koem@atze:~/tmp/b2ltmp> backup2l -c backup2l.conf -r
backup2l v1.5 by Gundolf Kiefer

Active files in <b2ltmp.1001>: 1
found in b2ltmp.1001: 1 ( 0 left)

Restoring 1 directories...
Restoring files...
b2ltmp.1001.tar.gz: 1 file(s) using 'DRIVER_TAR_GZ'
tar: home/koem/tmp/b2ltmp/backthisup/a\[0\]: Not found in archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

######## file is missing

koem@atze:~/tmp/b2ltmp> ls -l home/koem/tmp/b2ltmp/backthisup/
insgesamt 0

[David Spence]

My trouble is with the --restore option, not --backup, so I guess this comment probably goes under bug #22. I will put it there as well.

I got the following error message:

Restoring files...
all.162111.tar.gz: 1021 file(s) using 'DRIVER_TAR_GZ'
tar: home/dspence/.wine/drive_c/users/dspence/Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files/Content.IE5/APY3SBB1/get_addons\[0\]: Not found in archive

In fact, the file home/dspence/.wine/drive_c/users/dspence/Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files/Content.IE5/APY3SBB1/get_addons[0] was in the archive. I assume you use the back-slash as an escape character before certain special characters. I am wondering whether if you had used a single back-slash before the "[" and "]" characters instead of two back-slashes, perhaps it would have worked.