backup leaving off a letter

[mikef1]

Created a backup at the user level and looking thru the .tar of the public_html directory at least one of the files is missing its last letter. It should be filename.gif, but is instead filename.gi

The file name on the server is correct with it being .gif. All the files in that directory have the same permissions and there isnt anything funky I can see with that file name.

I ran into this problem last month when I was working with DA in more of a test environment doing user restores. I wasn't absolutely sure if it was a bug at the time since public_html on the the server was gone and all I had was the backups all of which had the last letter missing. I was also using the admin backup then which is labeled RC1, I figured it might have been an issue with that. The other difference was that it wasn't just one file missing the letter, there were a few in the same directory and a few in another directory missing the letter.

Running FreeBSD 6.2
DA 1.30.2

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

If this is a DA backup, then the command called by DA to create the tar.gz only calls inclusion of the /home/username/domains folder. It doesnt go into anymore detail than that. It would be up to tar to include any files, subfolders and their names. If things are getting renamed.. I really couldn't say why that would be.. perhaps tar isn't reading things right, or the tar.gz got corrupted.

Maybe try typing

tar tvzf file.tar.gz | grep filename

where file.tar.gz is the user bacukp, and filename is the filename.gif file...
It should output the stored contents of the backup, and then filter out just the filename. If it's ok there, then it's a restore issue.. if it's missing the char there, then it's a backup issue.

I have not heard of other reports of this.. if anyone else is experiencing this as well, please post some details.

John