As part of the testing we are doing I am backing up various types of files from OS X (in this case macOS Sierra beta 16A286a.
Most files backup and restore on the Mac side without error. .app files (which are in a sense actually directories) appear to backup without error, but upon restore I get a crossed out icon like this…
Upon attempting to open the file/app I then get this…
This suggests to me an issue with the file system to which I am backing up (NTFS). If that is the case am I better off in a mixed-OS client environment choosing ZFS or btrfs as the server file system?
Perhaps there is something else entirely different going on?
Of note I am running 2.0.32RC under Windows 2012 and 2.0.31RC on the Mac side. Note that Windows backups seems to be unaffected by this issue.
I might have already found the issue. Could you have a look at “C:\Program Files\UrBackupServer\urbackup.log” and if there are any error messages there during/after Mac restore?
Interesting, yes there are a number of errors for each file within the .app noted in the log similar to this:
ERROR: Error opening file handle to \?\C:\urbackup\semone-mbpro-13\160809-1858~test\Eclipse Installer.app\Contents\Eclipse\plugins\org.w3c.dom.svg_1.1.0.v201011041433.jar. A required privilege is not held by the client. (code: 1314)
Hey Hippy. It sure could be… what is strange is that all other tested file types seem to backup and restore without error. In fact I can zip a .app and then back up and restore and unzip and all is well. I suppose I could run a pre-flight script to do that, but it seems like it shouldn’t need to.
I also tried a file system copy of the .app (in this case the Eclipse installer) from the server to the client but still ended up with an unusable file.
Maybe there are a couple inter-related issues going on.
