I Think ReFS File System is not supportd

Getting Help
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Hello All,

In my testing i found that the Filesystem ReFS is not support,
moved to NTFS partition and the back up ran successfully.

I have another drive which is again ReFS.

–Error while backingup ReFS Partition:
Fatal: unable to save snapshot: nodeFromFileInfo D:: get EA failed for path D:, with: get file EA failed with: Incorrect function.

– Restic Version
restic 0.17.0 compiled with go1.22.5 on windows/amd64

-Please this is my first post.

Regards,
Vivek

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I’m guessing that restic has a problem with the fact that ReFS doesn’t support extended attributes. As far as I know is restic aware of extended attributes and there is no flag to disable this awareness.

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This is hopefully fixed in the latest beta versions, see [Regression] restic 0.17.0 on Windows: cannot backup using network drive · Issue #4955 · restic/restic · GitHub .

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Meanwhile, maybe restic 0.16.5 (before Back up and restore Extended Attributes on Windows NTFS by aneesh-n · Pull Request #4807 · restic/restic · GitHub, I guess) works for you? I just run a quick test, and I can reproduce the problem with 0.17.0, but not with 0.16.5.

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Thanks for the reply,
Will try with version 0.16.5 tonight and report back.

Regards,
D

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Hello All,
As @bazinga mentioned its working with 0.6.15, and the issue seems to be with the extended attributes,

So just a question, Can i keep using the 0.6.15 version and once this is handled, i can move to the newer version.

And thanks again for the help.

Regards,
D

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This error appears when backing up UNC share paths as-well. Cant use 0.17 with my current backups sadly.

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Yes, you can use 0.16.5 and then switch to a newer 0.17.x release later with no problem.

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Thanks a lot,
Will continue using 0.6.15…

Regards,
D

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Problem solved: Restic 0.17.1 Released.