Restore metadata fail on windows 10/11

Getting Help
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Hi everyone.
I have restic 0.17.1 (v0.17.1-0-g975aa41e1) compiled with go1.23.2 on windows/amd64
from the backend is restic-server: 0.13.0
I’m new to restic so I do not understand this behaviour
on Mac backing up and restoring works properly, but for windows there are some metadata errors:

C:\Program Files (x86)\....> .\restic.exe restore --target E:/Vitaliy/temp_restic_restore_test --include /C/Users/kvetals/Downloads/055.jpg 1de5081d38e96249344b5fc6c2960603e0036cc47faf91fefcdb13fa7f456a62 -v -v
repository c0a647b6 opened (version 2, compression level auto)
[0:00] 100.00%  12 / 12 index files loaded
restoring snapshot 1de5081d of [C:\] at 2024-10-14 11:54:55.5267593 +0300 EEST by WIN-5BFUR56GLA9\kvetals@WIN-5BFUR56GLA9 to E:/Vitaliy/temp_restic_restore_test
unchanged \C\Users\kvetals\Downloads\055.jpg with size 2.952 MiB
restored  \C\Users\kvetals\Downloads
restored  \C\Users\kvetals
ignoring error for \C\Users: multiple errors occurred: [error restoring creation time for: E:\Vitaliy\temp_restic_restore_test\C\Users : Access is denied.; error restoring file attributes for: E:\Vitaliy\temp_restic_restore_test\C\Users : Access is denied.; error restoring security descriptor for: E:\Vitaliy\temp_restic_restore_test\C\Users : set named security info failed with: Access is denied.]
restored  \C
Summary: Restored 3 / 0 files/dirs (0 B / 0 B) in 0:00, skipped 1 files/dirs 2.952 MiB
Fatal: There were 1 errors

It restores files but errors about metadata is still there.
I’ve tried to shutdown Windows Defender - nothing changed.
If anyone faced the problem I would be gratefull for help.

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That looks like there’s something special about the \C\Users folder that causes Windows to deny restic from restoring some of the metadata. Feel free to open a Github issue, although I’m not entirely sure how much we’ll be able to do here.

You could skip restoring the leading folders by specifying the snapshot as <snapshotid>:/C/Users/kvetals. (and remove that prefix from the include path)

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Thanks, but because of absence of replies for too long period, for now I swiched to latest from previous client version (16) for restoring and it works fine.