Zero Size Backups

[majurgens]

I have installed this addon. I have the latest version of Home Assistant running in a VM (2024.11)

It runs but always creates zero length files on the remote server. I have manually verified scp access is working.
I have looked in the debug log and I suspect that the problem is spaces in the file names (but not really sure).

Here is an extract of the debug log that seems relevant

debug1: Sending command: scp -v -t /export/shared/backups/ha/Automated backup 2024-11-16 05-00.tar
debug1: pledge: fork
debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype exit-status reply 0
debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype [email protected] reply 0
debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1
Transferred: sent 3356, received 3112 bytes, in 0.2 seconds
Bytes per second: sent 15945.0, received 14785.7
debug1: Exit status 1
scp: ambiguous target

Somehow this creates and empty file on the remote ssh server (where I need to escape or quote the spaces)

ls -l "/export/shared/backups/ha/Automated backup 2024-11-16 05-00.tar" 
-rw-r--r-- 1 ha ha 0 Nov 16 05:00 '/export/shared/backups/ha/Automated backup 2024-11-16 05-00.tar'

Rsync does not work either, maybe the same problem

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[majurgens]

Still a problem

[ikifar2012]

Have you checked the FAQ?
https://addons.mathesonsteplock.ca/docs/addons/remote-backup/resources#why-is-sftpscp-not-working

If that is no help may I know what device you are trying to copy to?

[majurgens]

None of that information seems relevant. The connection is good and the backup is created. It just cannot write it.
The biggest suspect is the error message "scp: ambiguous target" from the original post since there are spaces in the name.
The backup is being written to a Fedora Linux server. I have manually verified that the credentials work and that I can write files. In fact, if I remove the remotes directory or change its permissions to read-only the addon complains that it cannot write the backup

[majurgens]

Can we perhaps remove the space between the prefix and date on this line?

https://github.com/ikifar2012/remote-backup-addon/blame/d999e4291ab437ab43ab59ffe77bcbe8dec078bc/remote-backup/run.sh#L53

I'd love to be able to modify it locally and test it but I have zero clue on how to do this in Homeassistant

[ikifar2012]

I might just do this, I it makes sense to do