Selective restore of Samba File Server contents #58
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The Plocate command will be used to implement share content indexing, to quickly seek a file or directory name inside a backup.
Generate a Plocate share content index for each share under the same directory of Samba backup. Files have .plocate extension.
Prevent the creation of directories with Microsoft invalid characters. Refs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming-a-file#naming-conventions
- Require core 3.3.0+ - Extract from the bakckup snapshot the index of share contents - Search matching file/dir names with the index - Clean up the index cache after 8 hours
- Create and set-up permissions of "Restored content" folder, if missing. - Remove previously restored contents. - Restore the backup, capturing Restic's progress percentage.
The double-colon ":" char is considered a key/value separator in Python's ConfigParser class default configuration. Some share manual settings require ":" in the key string (e.g. Recycle Bin). This commit configure the ConfigParser object to expect key/value lines separated by "=" char only.
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Refs NethServer/dev#7072