Fix DR-spare path reset on reinstall and tilde-quoting in remote commands

Two stacked bugs, found together when re-running the backup installer to
add an SFTP mirror silently reverted a previously-set absolute
DR_SYNC_PATH back to the script's tilde-based default, which then failed
outright:

1. services/backup.sh never read DR_SYNC_HOST/DR_SYNC_PATH back from an
   existing backup.conf before prompting (every other setting in this file
   does — passwords, mirrors). Accepting the prompt defaults on a rerun
   silently reset both to blank/"~/docker/backup" instead of keeping what
   was already configured. Fixed by reading them back the same way
   DEST_*_PASSWORD already does.

2. extras/backup_kopia.sh's DR-spare sync wraps the remote path in single
   quotes for its `ssh host "mkdir -p '...'"` / `"chmod 600 '.../...'"`
   commands. Single-quoting a leading ~ stops the remote shell from
   expanding it at all, so it looked for a literal directory named "~"
   instead of the home directory — breaking the script's own DEFAULT
   DR_SYNC_PATH ("~/docker/backup") for anyone who actually used it.
   rsync's own transfer step has separate, correct tilde handling, which is
   why the sync itself "succeeded" while the follow-up chmod couldn't find
   the file. Fixed with a small _dr_remote_quote() helper that keeps a
   leading ~/ outside the quotes while still safely quoting the rest of
   the path.

Verified the quoting fix by parsing the exact constructed command string
in bash directly — a plain '~/docker/backup' stays literal (the bug),
~/'docker/backup' correctly expands to $HOME/docker/backup (the fix).
This commit is contained in:
Claude
2026-08-14 22:09:25 +00:00
parent 9edd821349
commit b9152369ef
2 changed files with 28 additions and 4 deletions
+22 -2
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@@ -229,6 +229,26 @@ done
# yet. dr_bringup.sh on the spare only needs these two small files — the # yet. dr_bringup.sh on the spare only needs these two small files — the
# repo data itself already lives wherever REMOTE_TYPE mirrored it (or is # repo data itself already lives wherever REMOTE_TYPE mirrored it (or is
# local, if the spare IS that target). # local, if the spare IS that target).
# Wraps a remote path for use inside a `ssh host "command '...'"` string so
# it's still safely quoted (spaces etc.) while a leading ~/ stays OUTSIDE
# the quotes — single-quoting a leading tilde stops the remote shell from
# expanding it at all, so it goes looking for a literal directory named
# "~" instead of the actual home directory. Confirmed live: this is exactly
# what broke `mkdir -p '~/docker/backup'` / `chmod 600 '~/docker/backup/...'`
# — the DEFAULT DR_SYNC_PATH — while rsync's own transfer step (which has
# its own tilde-aware remote-path handling, unrelated to shell quoting)
# succeeded against the exact same path.
_dr_remote_quote() {
local p="$1"
if [[ "$p" == "~/"* ]]; then
printf "~/'%s'" "${p#\~/}"
elif [[ "$p" == "~" ]]; then
printf '~'
else
printf "'%s'" "$p"
fi
}
if [ -n "${DR_SYNC_HOST:-}" ]; then if [ -n "${DR_SYNC_HOST:-}" ]; then
_dr_path="${DR_SYNC_PATH:-~/docker/backup}" _dr_path="${DR_SYNC_PATH:-~/docker/backup}"
log "Syncing backup.conf + README to spare ($DR_SYNC_HOST:$_dr_path)..." log "Syncing backup.conf + README to spare ($DR_SYNC_HOST:$_dr_path)..."
@@ -240,9 +260,9 @@ if [ -n "${DR_SYNC_HOST:-}" ]; then
# closed" while plain ssh exec and rsync's own protocol both still work # closed" while plain ssh exec and rsync's own protocol both still work
# fine over the same connection. Confirmed live: scp failing this way # fine over the same connection. Confirmed live: scp failing this way
# while `ssh "$DR_SYNC_HOST" true` succeeded, rsync doesn't hit it. # while `ssh "$DR_SYNC_HOST" true` succeeded, rsync doesn't hit it.
if ssh -o BatchMode=yes -o ConnectTimeout=10 "$DR_SYNC_HOST" "mkdir -p '$_dr_path'" 2>"$_ERR" \ if ssh -o BatchMode=yes -o ConnectTimeout=10 "$DR_SYNC_HOST" "mkdir -p $(_dr_remote_quote "$_dr_path")" 2>"$_ERR" \
&& rsync -a -e 'ssh -o BatchMode=yes -o ConnectTimeout=10' "${_dr_files[@]}" "$DR_SYNC_HOST:$_dr_path/" 2>>"$_ERR" \ && rsync -a -e 'ssh -o BatchMode=yes -o ConnectTimeout=10' "${_dr_files[@]}" "$DR_SYNC_HOST:$_dr_path/" 2>>"$_ERR" \
&& ssh -o BatchMode=yes -o ConnectTimeout=10 "$DR_SYNC_HOST" "chmod 600 '$_dr_path/backup.conf'" 2>>"$_ERR"; then && ssh -o BatchMode=yes -o ConnectTimeout=10 "$DR_SYNC_HOST" "chmod 600 $(_dr_remote_quote "$_dr_path/backup.conf")" 2>>"$_ERR"; then
log "OK spare sync ($DR_SYNC_HOST)" log "OK spare sync ($DR_SYNC_HOST)"
else else
_err_text="$(cat "$_ERR" 2>/dev/null)" _err_text="$(cat "$_ERR" 2>/dev/null)"
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@@ -563,9 +563,13 @@ install_backup() {
echo " up first if you haven't (ssh-keygen, then ssh-copy-id to the spare)." echo " up first if you haven't (ssh-keygen, then ssh-copy-id to the spare)."
echo "" echo ""
local DR_SYNC_HOST="" DR_SYNC_PATH="" local DR_SYNC_HOST="" DR_SYNC_PATH=""
prompt_text " Spare box SSH destination, user@host (blank to skip):" "" DR_SYNC_HOST if [ -f "$CONF_FILE" ]; then
DR_SYNC_HOST="$(grep '^DR_SYNC_HOST=' "$CONF_FILE" 2>/dev/null | sed -E "s/^DR_SYNC_HOST='(.*)'\$/\1/")"
DR_SYNC_PATH="$(grep '^DR_SYNC_PATH=' "$CONF_FILE" 2>/dev/null | sed -E "s/^DR_SYNC_PATH='(.*)'\$/\1/")"
fi
prompt_text " Spare box SSH destination, user@host (blank to skip):" "$DR_SYNC_HOST" DR_SYNC_HOST
if [ -n "$DR_SYNC_HOST" ]; then if [ -n "$DR_SYNC_HOST" ]; then
prompt_text " Path for backup.conf/README on the spare:" "~/docker/backup" DR_SYNC_PATH prompt_text " Path for backup.conf/README on the spare:" "${DR_SYNC_PATH:-~/docker/backup}" DR_SYNC_PATH
DR_SYNC_PATH="${DR_SYNC_PATH:-~/docker/backup}" DR_SYNC_PATH="${DR_SYNC_PATH:-~/docker/backup}"
# Catch a missing/unauthorized key now, not at 2am during the first # Catch a missing/unauthorized key now, not at 2am during the first