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Merge pull request #3780 from jkmw/fix/2578

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Remove existing path before restoring a symlink
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Michael Eischer 2022-09-24 12:34:42 +02:00 committed by GitHub
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Bugfix: Make sure that symlinks can be created during recovery
When restoring a symlink, restic reported an error if the target path already existed.
With this change, the potentially existing target path is first removed before the symlink is recreated.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2578
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3780

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internal/restic/node.go
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@ -299,8 +299,12 @@ func (node Node) createSymlinkAt(path string) error {
if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
return nil
}
err := fs.Symlink(node.LinkTarget, path)
if err != nil {
if err := os.Remove(path); err != nil && !errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
return errors.Wrap(err, "Symlink")
}
if err := fs.Symlink(node.LinkTarget, path); err != nil {
return errors.Wrap(err, "Symlink")
}