From 962279479d85174e92698a144f30879d1c7f07d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Eischer Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 20:01:52 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] add vss metadata changelog --- changelog/unreleased/issue-5107 | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) create mode 100644 changelog/unreleased/issue-5107 diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/issue-5107 b/changelog/unreleased/issue-5107 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..13bb380e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/changelog/unreleased/issue-5107 @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Bugfix: Fix metadata error on Windows for backups using VSS + +Since restic 0.17.2, when creating a backup on Windows using `--use-fs-snapshot`, +restic would report an error like the following: + +``` +error: incomplete metadata for C:\: get EA failed while opening file handle for path \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopyXX\, with: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. +``` + +This has now been fixed by correctly handling paths that refer to volume +shadow copy snapshots. + +https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/5107 +https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/5110 +https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/5112