restic 0.18.1 compiled with go1.25.1 on darwin/arm64
restic backup --ignore-inode /Volumes/AjamiLab
I am trying to back up a huge samba mount - about 46,455,557,455,872 bytes (46.46 TB on disk). I can’t run it from the machine hosting the mount, I have to do it over samba or SFTP (ugh, don’t ask). I have a full snapshot of 37.60 TB now (dedupes and max compresses down to ~18TB). Apparently there’s some paths that I don’t have access to. I’m rerunning the snapshot (should take ~72 hours) and logging stderr this time so I can figure out what is missing.
The first error has hit, and it says…
error: readdirnames /Volumes/AjamiLab/BGMP_student_space/data_transfer/SCL230321BA/Aligned/Aligned/SCL230321BA_PPMI17_A_517/SC_MULTI_CS/SC_MULTI_CORE/MULTI_GEM_WELL_PROCESSOR/VDJ_T_GEM_WELL_PROCESSOR/SC_VDJ_CONTIG_ASSEMBLER/ASSEMBLE_VDJ/fork0 failed: fdopendir /Volumes/AjamiLab/BGMP_student_space/data_transfer/SCL230321BA/Aligned/Aligned/SCL230321BA_PPMI17_A_517/SC_MULTI_CS/SC_MULTI_CORE/MULTI_GEM_WELL_PROCESSOR/VDJ_T_GEM_WELL_PROCESSOR/SC_VDJ_CONTIG_ASSEMBLER/ASSEMBLE_VDJ/fork0: not a directory
I assumed it was some irregular file but, when I navigate to the path… it enumerates just fine:
So I’m wondering if there’s some path character limit with MacOS / samba, or if it’s on Restic’s side, or what? Not sure where to go from here. Going to wait for this snapshot to finish and get a list of what fails and copy out manually I suppose. But I thought I’d post here and see if anyone had any ideas.
These scientists are awful with file naming - horrendously long filenames, every special character you can think of (and some you can’t), leading/trailing spaces in file/folder names, and as many subdirectories as you can imagine. I’m constantly dealing with this sort of thing. Usually Restic is one of the only tools I have that just takes whatever I give it, but not today apparently haha