directory permissions broken after extraction if single file is extracted

[AxelRHD]

Hello Borg-Team,

I have problems with the extract-function. Had to backup with sudo because of file permissions (f. e. backing up the /usr/local/bin-folder). The directory-permissions changed from drwx r-x r-x (original file, also in archive) to drwx --- --- (created directory at extraction time).

I used the command sudo borg extract repo::archive usr/local/bin/file to restore a single file.

Is there something wrong in my usage of the extraction-tool or is this a bug?

[ThomasWaldmann]

that's a known issue and we already have a ticket for it.

See issue #5, attic issue 276.

[ThomasWaldmann]

hmm, or maybe not?

Are you saying you restored directly to the existing /usr/local/bin directory?
== you were root, and cwd was / when invoking the borg command?

[AxelRHD]

No, I tried to restore the file to another directory. I got from this destination the complete sub-directories usr/local/bin/file (for example in my home-directory).

[ThomasWaldmann]

OK, then see the attic issue I mentioned. The point is you told borg to only extract one file (not directories), so it had only the data of that one file. It created the directories on-the-fly without having metadata for them, except the names (which are stored with the file).

[ThomasWaldmann]

I reopened this to locally track it, so users can better find it. Will check the attic issue from the list instead.