Restore/revert of non-toplevel items produces only empty folders
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | ||
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sbackup | Status tracked in Trunk | |||||
0.11 |
Fix Released
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High
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Jean-Peer Lorenz | |||
Trunk |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned | |||
sbackup (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Problem was originally reported by Julien on 2011-01-07:
Whatever button I click (revert/
I have french version running 0.11.3 on Ubuntu Maverick.
I am trying to restore files as root (from Applications-
My tar.gz file is as follows :
/etc
/home
/usr/local
/var
If I try to restore my /home/julien/
If I launch the following command by myself in a terminal
/bin/tar -xp --gzip --ignore-
the result is the same : the folder tree is there but there is no file...
/bin/tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.23
Related branches
Changed in sbackup (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
The problem stems from tar's commandline option '--occurrence' which behaves inconsistently. It does work if a top-level folder is being extracted but does not work for other directories. Unfortunately, pre-release test didn't cover such cases. Sorry for any trouble - a fix will be released ASAP.