Empty (excluded?) directories get lost in restore

[raimi]

Noticed on using shaback to clone and adjust some machines: Empty and/or excluded directories get lost.

Problem (on Debian):

• With missing /var/log/apache2/ apache won't start since it can't log.
• With missing /var/log/fsck/ some logsave(8) processes wait forever

The actual problem are probably our (pi) default exclusion rules - but i wouldn't know a rule to exclude every file from /var/log/ retaining the subdir-structure...

Update 2013-01: This is problem! I just had to recover my entire root-filesystem and the recovery was incomplete. Special directories /dev /sys and /tmp were to created by the recovery process! The directories were part of the repo but they happened to be empty (because they are mount points or were just empty).

[raimi]

How to reproduce (probably, I did not try):

mkdir -p /foo/bar shaback backup /foo shaback restore /foo

Bug: empty directory "bar" is not created inside foo.

[workflo]

Depends on how you exclude directories: Exclude even the directory itself: addExcludePattern('/foo') Exclude what's inside the directory: addExcludePattern('/foo/*')