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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon anarcat

Issue with backing up "/" and bup's "--strip-path /" option

Open blueyed opened this issue 10 years ago • 3 comments

I've just noticed that backing up "/" appeared to strip off all paths of the first level.

This has been fixed in https://github.com/bup/bup/commit/1e6960cc99f293c740d6ab4c9f0bd4008f5626d2 - I don't know if it has regressed recently or has been like this for longer.

Maybe bup-cron could not use --strip-path when backing up /?

blueyed avatar Feb 18 '15 19:02 blueyed

oh boy, that old bug. i had tons of problems with --strip-path, but i thought they were all fixed. maybe it's because i just didn't notice the problem again.

i'm hesitant in adding workarounds for bup bugs in bup-cron. shouldn't we make people upgrade instead?

anarcat avatar Feb 19 '15 15:02 anarcat

i'm hesitant in adding workarounds for bup bugs in bup-cron. shouldn't we make people upgrade instead?

Agreed. But maybe a warning would be good, in case it's easy to detect this scenario.

blueyed avatar Feb 19 '15 15:02 blueyed

Maybe --strip-path could just be skipped if it's /?

blueyed avatar Feb 24 '15 22:02 blueyed