[rdiff-backup-users] Recovery to Linux from Windows

[Stefan Lisowski]

Our Linux box died, so now we're restoring from a rdiff-backup 
repository on a Windows box running Cygwin. Fine for lowercase files. 
But not fine for uppercase escaped files. I see lots of posts about why 
capital letters are escaped and from the FAQ I see "Upon restore (from 
the Mac backup server to the Linux system), the filenames are unquoted 
and you will get "MyFile" back."

However, I'm unable to get the filenames back to normal using a restore 
command (-r with a time seems to be the only restore command there is 
for rdiff-backup)

Any ideas?

A script to un-escape the names would be fine as an alternative if 
anyone has one...

Details below:

;080roducts

contains

;065;084;067ontent;084ypes/
;065;084;082eference;066rowser;087idget/
;065rchetypes/
;067;077;070;065ction;073cons/
;067;077;070;067alendar/
;067;077;070;067ore/
;067;077;070;068efault/
;067;077;070;068ynamic;086iew;070;084;073/
;067;077;070;070orm;067ontroller/
;067;077;070;080laceful;087orkflow/
;067;077;070;080lone/
;067;077;070;081uick;073nstaller;084ool/
;067;077;070;083etup/
;067;077;070;083quid;084ool/
etc...

I try restoring to a file on Windows:

rdiff-backup -r 1h \;080roducts /opt/Products

it takes time, but then nothing appears in the target directory

I try restoring to another Linux box:

$ rdiff-backup -r 1h \;080roducts address@hidden::/home/stefan/downloads/
plone_backup_from_newpaltz/Plone
address@hidden's password:
Warning: Access Control List file not found

it takes a little time, but nothing happens. If I do -v 5 for both 
you'll see the following (I attached -v 20 as a file for the remote 
server test; too large to include in this email)

$ rdiff-backup  -v 5 -r 1h \;080roducts /opt/Products
Using rdiff-backup version 1.2.8
Unable to import module xattr.
Extended attributes not supported on filesystem at 
/cygdrive/k/backups/bigboy_backups_rdiff/rdiff-backup-data
Unable to import module posix1e from pylibacl package.
POSIX ACLs not supported on filesystem at 
/cygdrive/k/backups/bigboy_backups_rdiff/rdiff-backup-data
Unable to import win32security module. Windows ACLs
not supported by filesystem at 
/cygdrive/k/backups/bigboy_backups_rdiff/rdiff-backup-data
escape_dos_devices not required by filesystem at 
/cygdrive/k/backups/bigboy_backups_rdiff/rdiff-backup-data
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for rdiff-backup repository (read only) file system:
  Access control lists                         Off
  Extended attributes                          Off
  Windows access control lists                 Off
  Case sensitivity                             Off
  Escape DOS devices                           Off
  Escape trailing spaces                       Off
  Mac OS X style resource forks                Off
  Mac OS X Finder information                  Off
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Unable to import module xattr.
Extended attributes not supported on filesystem at 
/opt/Products/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
Unable to import module posix1e from pylibacl package.
POSIX ACLs not supported on filesystem at /opt/Products/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
Unable to import win32security module. Windows ACLs
not supported by filesystem at /opt/Products/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
escape_dos_devices not required by filesystem at 
/opt/Products/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for restore target (read/write) file system:
  Ownership changing                           Off
  Hard linking                                 On
  fsync() directories                          On
  Directory inc permissions                    On
  High-bit permissions                         On
  Symlink permissions                          Off
  Extended filenames                           On
  Windows reserved filenames                   On
  Access control lists                         Off
  Extended attributes                          Off
  Windows access control lists                 Off
  Case sensitivity                             Off
  Escape DOS devices                           Off
  Escape trailing spaces                       Off
  Mac OS X style resource forks                Off
  Mac OS X Finder information                  Off
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Restore: must_escape_dos_devices = 0
Starting restore of ;080roducts to /opt/Products as it was as of Tue Jun 
 4 16:2
3:48 2013.
Processing changed file .
Restore finished


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or

-------

address@hidden 
/cygdrive/k/backups/bigboy_backups_rdiff/opt/;080lone-2.5.5/zeocl
uster
$ rdiff-backup -v 5 -r 1h \;080roducts address@hidden::/home/stefan/downl
oads/plone_backup_from_newpaltz/Plone
Using rdiff-backup version 1.2.8
Executing ssh -C address@hidden rdiff-backup --server
address@hidden's password:
Unable to import module xattr.
Extended attributes not supported on filesystem at 
/cygdrive/k/backups/bigboy_backups_rdiff/rdiff-backup-data
Unable to import module posix1e from pylibacl package.
POSIX ACLs not supported on filesystem at 
/cygdrive/k/backups/bigboy_backups_rdi
ff/rdiff-backup-data
Unable to import win32security module. Windows ACLs
not supported by filesystem at 
/cygdrive/k/backups/bigboy_backups_rdiff/rdiff-backup-data
escape_dos_devices not required by filesystem at 
/cygdrive/k/backups/bigboy_backups_rdiff/rdiff-backup-data
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for rdiff-backup repository (read only) file system:
  Access control lists                         Off
  Extended attributes                          Off
  Windows access control lists                 Off
  Case sensitivity                             Off
  Escape DOS devices                           Off
  Escape trailing spaces                       Off
  Mac OS X style resource forks                Off
  Mac OS X Finder information                  Off
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Unable to import win32security module. Windows ACLs
not supported by filesystem at 
/home/stefan/downloads/plone_backup_from_newpaltz
/Plone/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
escape_dos_devices not required by filesystem at 
/home/stefan/downloads/plone_backup_from_newpaltz/Plone/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for restore target (read/write) file system:
  Ownership changing                           Off
  Hard linking                                 On
  fsync() directories                          On
  Directory inc permissions                    On
  High-bit permissions                         On
  Symlink permissions                          Off
  Extended filenames                           On
  Windows reserved filenames                   Off
  Access control lists                         On
  Extended attributes                          On
  Windows access control lists                 Off
  Case sensitivity                             On
  Escape DOS devices                           Off
  Escape trailing spaces                       Off
  Mac OS X style resource forks                Off
  Mac OS X Finder information                  Off
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Restore: must_escape_dos_devices = 0
Starting restore of ;080roducts to 
/home/stefan/downloads/plone_backup_from_newpaltz/Plone as it was as of 
Tue Jun  4 16:24:55 2013.
Warning: Access Control List file not found
Processing changed file .Restore finished

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