Restore fails with tar error

Virtualmin
1

Hello all,

using Webmin Version 1.500, Virtualmin Version 3.76.gpl on Debian 4.0 etch,
I try to restore a Virtualmin-Backup from
Webmin Version 1.500, Virtualmin Version 3.76.gpl on Debian 5.0 lenny.

But, I get the following error:

Starting restore of 1 domains from local file /home/falko/mydomain.de.tar.gz …

Extracting backup archive file …
… extraction of /home/falko/mydomain.de.tar.gz failed!

/bin/tar: Pattern matching characters used in file names. Please,
use --wildcards to enable pattern matching, or --no-wildcards to
suppress this warning.

.backup/*: Not found in archive

/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Backup does not contain virtual server information for missing domain mydomain.de.

… failed! See the progress output above for the reason why.

Is there anything I could do to get this server imported from Backup?

Thanx in advance,

Falko

2

Howdy,

Well, from the output above, it sounds as if there may be a problem with the backup archive.

If you were to untar that backup manually, do you get any errors? And, do you see a directory called .backup with various config files in it?

-Eric

3

Thanx for your quick answer.

Yes, after doing

myserver:/home/falko# mkdir restore_test
myserver:/home/falko# cd restore_test/
myserver:/home/falko/restore_test# tar xzf …/mydomain.de.tar.gz

I have the following:

myserver:/home/falko/restore_test# ls -as -1 insgesamt 72 4 awstats 4 .awstats-htpasswd 4 .backup 4 .bash_history 4 cgi-bin 4 etc 4 fcgi-bin 4 homes 4 logs 4 public_html 4 .usermin 12 .viminfo

myserver:/home/falko/restore_test# ls -as -1 .backup/
4 mydomain.de_logrotate
4 mydomain.de_mysql
380 mydomain.de_mysql_mydomain.gz
2112 mydomain.de_mysql_mydomain_yaml_405.gz
0 mydomain.de_unix
4 mydomain.de_virtualmin
64 mydomain.de_virtualmin-awstats
4 mydomain.de_virtualmin-dav
4 mydomain.de_virtualmin_plan
8 mydomain.de_virtualmin_template
4 mydomain.de_web
1112 mydomain.de_web_alog
4 mydomain.de_web_elog
20 mydomain.de_webmin

Is there a way to give the “–wildcards” option to the tar cmd when doing restore?

Best regards,
Falko

4

It sounds like you may be running into a bug of some kind.

What I’d recommend is to file a Support request, as Jamie may need to tweak some things so that the parameter you’re seeing above is used, as it’s possible some tar defaults have changed.

-Eric

5

Well,

just to get around for now, I’ve searched for “.backup/*” and changed line 1093 in backup-libs.pl from

# Home format as in ZIP file $homeformat{$f} = $f; $extract = ".backup/*"; to # Home format as in ZIP file $homeformat{$f} = $f; $extract = ".backup/";

–> then the restore worked flawlessly
(only apache2 wasn’t running any more afterwards caused by “Invalid command ‘FCGIWrapper’”, which hasn’t been noticed by virtualmin during restore, but this is another thing - virtualmin should IMHO at least call “apache2ctl configtest” before restarting apache).

tar --version shows:
tar (GNU tar) 1.16 Copyright © 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
or
tar/stable uptodate 1.16-2etch1

I don’t know if this is a bug or just a behaviour of my installation, but I’ve filed a bug report at https://www.virtualmin.com/node/13239.

Thanx for you support!
Falko